checkered

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: check=ered

CIDE DICTIONARY

checkered, a. 

•  Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.  [1913 Webster]

  "Dancing in the checkered shade."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

checkered

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.