English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English checkered
From checker + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
checkered (comparative more checkered, superlative most checkered)
- Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.
That is a checkered tablecloth.
- (figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
1876 October, Henry James, Jr., chapter XII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 197:“What a checkered career!” said Newman.
Derived terms
Translations
divided into squares
- Arabic: مُرَبَّعَاتٍ (murabbaʕātin)
- Asturian: axedrezáu
- Bulgarian: кари́ран (bg) (karíran)
- Burmese: ကျား (my) (kya:)
- Catalan: escacat, endauat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有方格的 (yǒu fānggé de)
- Czech: kostkovaný, kárový
- Danish: ternet
- Dutch: dambordachtig, schaakbordachtig, geblokt (nl)
- Finnish: ruudullinen (fi)
- French: à carreaux, échiqueté (fr) (especially in heraldry), carreauté (fr) (Louisiana), en damier (fr)
- Galician: axadrezado (gl)
- German: kariert (de), schachbrettartig (de)
- Hungarian: kockás (hu), pepita (hu)
- Irish: seicear
- Italian: scaccato (it), a quadri, quadrettato (it), a scacchi, a quadretti
- Japanese: 格子模様の (こうしもようの, kōshi moyō no)
- Malay: gandan
- Norwegian: rutete
- Persian: چارخانه (čârxâne)
- Polish: kraciasty (pl), w kratkę
- Portuguese: quadriculado (pt), axadrezado, xadrez (pt)
- Romanian: caroiat
- Russian: кле́тчатый (ru) (klétčatyj), в кле́тку (ru) (v klétku)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: коцкаст
- Latin: kockast (sh)
- Spanish: a cuadros, ajedrezado (es), escaqueado (es)
- Swedish: rutig (sv), schackrutig (sv)
- Turkish: damalı (tr), satrançlı (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: سطرنجلو (satranclı)
- Welsh: sgwarog
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changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures
- Arabic: مُرِيب (murīb), مَشْكُوك فِيهِ (maškūk fīhi)
- Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: bont (nl)
- Finnish: kirjava (fi), värikäs (fi)
- German: wechselvoll (de)
- Hungarian: (lit. “colorful”) tarka (hu), tarkabarka (hu), színes (hu), (changeable) változatos (hu), (eventful) fordulatos (hu), eseménydús (hu), mozgalmas (hu), (marked by many problems or failures) hányatott (hu), hányattatott
- Italian: variegato (it), contrastato (it), a luci e ombre
- Japanese: 数奇 (ja) (sūki)
- Russian: пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj), изме́нчивый (ru) (izménčivyj), разнообра́зный (ru) (raznoobráznyj)
- Swedish: brokig (sv)
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See also
Verb
checkered
- simple past and past participle of checker
Anagrams