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English
Etymology
From un- + critical.
Pronunciation
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
Translations
indulgent or undiscriminating; slow to criticize
having a disregard for critical standards or procedures