Definition of "unchecked" in 英语

adjective

1. Unrestrained, not held back.

   • unchecked ambition
   • unchecked power
   • O happy captain, that may'st houze / In quarter free, and uncheckt brouze / On teeming hedge, when purse is light, / Or on the wholsom sallat bite: […]
   • Far spread the moorey ground a level scene / Bespread with rush and one eternal green / That never felt the rage of blundering plough / Through centurys wreathed springs blossoms on its brow / Still meeting plains that stretched them far away / In uncheckt shadows of green brown and grey / Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene / Nor fence of ownership crept in between / To hide the prospect of the following eye / Its only bondage was the circling sky […]

2. Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc.

   • unchecked writings
   • unchecked findings

3. (chiefly computing) Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled).

4. (crosswording) Of a square: part of only one entry (that is, across or down, but not both).

verb

1. simple past and past participle of uncheck.