My summer school dress is blue and white checkered.
Source: tatoeba (24356)
Checkered
Synonyms for "checkered" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- مَشْكُوك فِيهِ adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- مُرَبَّعَاتٍ adj (divided into squares)
- مُرِيب adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
Asturian
1 entries- axedrezáu adj (divided into squares)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кари́ран adj (divided into squares)
- пъстър adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျား adj (divided into squares)
Catalan
2 entries- endauat adj (divided into squares)
- escacat adj (divided into squares)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 有方格的 adj (divided into squares)
Czech
2 entries- kostkovaný adj (divided into squares)
- kárový adj (divided into squares)
Danish
1 entries- ternet adj (divided into squares)
Dutch
4 entries- bont adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- dambordachtig adj (divided into squares)
- geblokt adj (divided into squares)
- schaakbordachtig adj (divided into squares)
Finnish
3 entries- kirjava adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- ruudullinen adj (divided into squares)
- värikäs adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
French
4 entries- carreauté adj (divided into squares)
- en damier adj (divided into squares)
- à carreaux adj (divided into squares)
- échiqueté adj (divided into squares)
Galician
1 entries- axadrezado adj (divided into squares)
German
3 entries- kariert adj (divided into squares)
- schachbrettartig adj (divided into squares)
- wechselvoll adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
Hungarian
4 entries- (eventful) fordulatos adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- eseménydús adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- hányatott adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- hányattatott adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
Irish
1 entries- seicear adj (divided into squares)
Italian
4 entries- a luci e ombre adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- a quadretti adj (divided into squares)
- a quadri adj (divided into squares)
- a scacchi adj (divided into squares)
Japanese
1 entries- 格子模様の adj (divided into squares)
Malay
1 entries- gandan adj (divided into squares)
Norwegian
1 entries- rutete adj (divided into squares)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سطرنجلو adj (divided into squares)
Persian
1 entries- چارخانه adj (divided into squares)
Polish
2 entries- kraciasty adj (divided into squares)
- w kratkę adj (divided into squares)
Portuguese
3 entries- axadrezado adj (divided into squares)
- quadriculado adj (divided into squares)
- xadrez adj (divided into squares)
Romanian
1 entries- caroiat adj (divided into squares)
Russian
4 entries- в кле́тку adj (divided into squares)
- изме́нчивый adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- кле́тчатый adj (divided into squares)
- пёстрый adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kockast adj (divided into squares)
- коцкаст adj (divided into squares)
Spanish
3 entries- a cuadros adj (divided into squares)
- ajedrezado adj (divided into squares)
- escaqueado adj (divided into squares)
Swedish
3 entries- brokig adj (changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures)
- rutig adj (divided into squares)
- schackrutig adj (divided into squares)
Turkish
2 entries- damalı adj (divided into squares)
- satrançlı adj (divided into squares)
Welsh
1 entries- sgwarog adj (divided into squares)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Source: tatoeba (417553)
He has a checkered past.
Source: tatoeba (545277)
Tom has a checkered past.
Source: tatoeba (5746914)
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