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checkered 音标拼音: [tʃ'ɛkɚd] 多变的,有方格的,不规则的 多变的,有方格的,不规则的 checkered adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [ synonym: { checked}, { checkered}, { chequered}] 2: marked by changeable fortune; " a checkered business career" Checker \ Check" er\ ( ch[ e^] k"[~ e] r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Checkered} ( ch[ e^] k"[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Checkering}.] [ From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. [' e] chiquier. See { Check}, n., and cf. 3d { Checker}.] 1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. [ 1913 Webster] Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster]
Checkered \ Check" ered\ ( ch[ e^] k"[~ e] rd), a. 1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. [ 1913 Webster] Dancing in the checkered shade. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a character with a checkered past [ 1913 Webster] This checkered narrative. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for " checkered": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, changeable, check, checked, ever- changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many- sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, mosaic, movable, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plaid, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, tessellate, tessellated, transient, transitory, variable
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