Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unchecked

/ʌnˈt͡ʃɛkt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: un-checked
IPA: /ʌnˈt͡ʃɛkt/

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unrestrained, not held back.

adj

Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc.

adj

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

adj

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

verb

simple past and past participle of uncheck.

Example Sentences

"unchecked ambition"
"unchecked power"
"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."
"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: […]"
"[…] For, whenever his Bounty is miſus'd, by being made to miniſter to our Luſts or any unlawful Paſſions, if he ſhall ſtill ſuffer us to go on in an uncheckt Courſe of Proſperity, That is what may Pleaſe Us, and we may be likely to think it God's Favour and Kindneſs to Us, which would really be one of his Greateſt Plagues."
"The buſy candidates for power and fame / Have hopes, and fears, and wiſhes juſt the ſame; / Diſabled both to combat, or to fly, / Muſt hear all taunts, and hear without reply. / Uncheck'd on both, loud rabbles vent their rage, / As mongrels bay the lion in a cage."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English checked English unchecked From un- + checked.

Inflected Forms

uncheckt (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

unch

Phrases

unchecked exception

Synonyms

uncontrolled unbridled uncurbed ungoverned

Rhymes With

perfect respect effect expect subject protect direct self-respect correct affect checked suspect

Questions

How do you pronounce unchecked?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌnˈt͡ʃɛkt/.
What does unchecked mean?: Unrestrained, not held back.
Where does unchecked come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English checked English unchecked From un- + checked.

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