unchecked /ʌnˈt͡ʃɛkt/ adjective4 •Unrestrained, not held back.The Earth's a Theefe, / That feeds and breeds by a composture stolne / From gen'rall excrement: each thing's a Theefe. The Lawes, your curbe and whip, in their rough power / Ha's vncheck'd Theft. — 1605 •Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc. •Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled).This pseudocode is unambiguous if we know that the previous state of all the boxes is "unchecked." Because we can't be sure of that in buggy code, a better model might be: […] — 1995 •Of a square: part of only one entry (that is, across or down, but not both).