Definitions for checkered

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checkered check·ered

Spelling: [chek-erd]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛk ərd/

Checkered is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in checkered (ccdeeehkr).

Definitions for checkered

noun

1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
2. checkers. Also called, British, draughts. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
3. a checkered pattern.
4. one of the squares of a checkered pattern.

adjective

1. marked by numerous and various shifts or changes; variegated:
2. marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality:
3. marked with squares:
4. diversified in color; alternately light and shadowed:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark like a checkerboard.
2. to diversify in color; variegate.
3. to diversify in character; subject to alternations:

Origin of checkered

1350-1400; Middle English. See checker¹, -ed²

Examples for checkered

His sleep was checkered with starts and moans, and sometimes with a muttered word or two.

Rousseau, at the end of his checkered life, from 1770 to 1778, lived in Paris.

In a video uploaded to YouTube, a young man, wearing a checkered keffiyeh over his face, said he was a Svoboda member.

The lower portion of the body is silvery white, checkered with black.

On a “warm up session,” he can be seen donning a checkered shirt and baseball hat atop his bushy ponytail.

In all his checkered life, that had left its deepest stamp on him in Italy.

But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile.

He started out with a mixed, checkered record [and] seemed to be ready to build a good relationship with the West.

Your character has a great look, with the short bob and the checkered dress.

Although it should be noted that Feldman does have a checkered past.