uncritical

adj — 3 senses

uncritical

adj

Etymology From un- + critical.

1

Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.

  • an uncritical review
  • Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket:
1 more example
  • More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 55:
2

Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.

3

Slow to criticize.

  • uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model
Antonyms
critical
Derived terms
uncritically, uncriticalness
Related terms
noncritical

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