uncritical
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Etymology
Adjective
uncritical (comparative more uncritical, superlative most uncritical)
- Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
- an uncritical review
- c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket:
- 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 […]
- 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 55:
- More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.
- Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Slow to criticize.
- uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model
Antonyms
- (all senses): critical
Related terms
Translations
indulgent or undiscriminating; slow to criticize
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having a disregard for critical standards or procedures
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