checkered
adjEtymology From checker + -ed.
1
Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.
- That is a checkered tablecloth.
2
Figuratively Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
- “What a checkered career!” said Newman.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:
- Derived terms
- checkered flag, green-white-checkered, uncheckered
- Related terms
- checked, chequered