un·crit·i·cal

(ŭn-krĭt′ĭ-kəl)

adj.

1. Not critical; undiscriminating or indulgent.

2. Not using critical standards or methods, as in evaluation.

un·crit′i·cal·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

uncritical

(ʌnˈkrɪtɪkəl)

adj

not containing or making severe or negative judgments

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

un•crit•i•cal

(ʌnˈkrɪt ɪ kəl)

adj.

1. not inclined or able to judge or evaluate: an uncritical reader.

2. undiscriminating; not able or inclined to analyze.

[1650–60]

un•crit′i•cal•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	uncritical - marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts" noncritical unscholarly - not scholarly critical - characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"
	2.	uncritical - not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer" critical - marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

uncritical

adjective undiscriminating, unthinking, undiscerning, indiscriminate, unfussy, easily pleased, unselective, unperceptive, unexacting the view of women as uncritical purchasers of advertised products
critical, discriminating, discerning, selective, fussy, perceptive, fastidious

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

uncritical

adjective

Lacking in intellectual depth or thoroughness:

cursory, one-dimensional, shallow, sketchy, skin-deep, superficial.

Translations

étourdi

uncritical

[ˈʌnˈkrɪtɪkəl] ADJ → falto de sentido crítico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

uncritical

adj → unkritisch (→ of, about in Bezug auf +acc)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

uncritical

[ʌnˈkrɪtɪk/əl] adj (pej) (reader, admirer) → poco critico/a; (approach, attitude) → acritico/a
to be uncritical of → avere poco senso critico nei confronti di

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

The uncritical admiration of the Bible and Shakespeare in England is an instance of what I mean.

View in context

"Let me get home," thought I, very much upset by this information, "let me get home to my dear, uncritical, admiring babies, who accept my nose as an example of what a nose should be, and whatever its colour think it beautiful." And thrusting the handkerchief back into the little girl's hands, I hurried away down the path.

View in context

If one were asked whether, throughout his many changes, there was yet one aim, one direction, and one hope to which he held fast, one would be forced to reply in the affirmative and declare that aim, direction, and hope to have been "the elevation of the type man." Now, when Nietzsche met Wagner he was actually casting about for an incarnation of his dreams for the German people, and we have only to remember his youth (he was twenty-one when he was introduced to Wagner), his love of Wagner's music, and the undoubted power of the great musician's personality, in order to realise how very uncritical his attitude must have been in the first flood of his enthusiasm.

View in context

For her taste was catholic, and she extended uncritical approval to every well-known name.

View in context

Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and brother; and Archer loved them with a tenderness made compunctious and uncritical by the sense of their exaggerated admiration, and by his secret satisfaction in it.

View in context

He was enchanted by her approbation of his taste, confessed it to be neat and simple, thought it right to encourage the manufacture of his country; and for his part, to his uncritical palate, the tea was as well flavoured from the clay of Staffordshire, as from that of Dresden or Save.

View in context

And this cruel outward accuser was there in the shape of a wife--nay, of a young bride, who, instead of observing his abundant pen-scratches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant-minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watching everything with a malign power of inference.

View in context

His positiveness, fascinating and effective as it is for an uncritical reader, carries with it extreme self-confidence and dogmatism, which render him violently intolerant of any interpretations of characters and events except those that he has formed, and formed sometimes hastily and with prejudice.

View in context

But no matter what atrocities has inflicted, the Saudi regime has been able to count on the uncritical political and military support of the UK.

UK's arms sales shame; record readers

We see two typical reactions: uncritical apathy or hyperpartisan agreement or disagreement.

How woke culture helps weaponize law

* Completely uncritical acceptance of the claims and promises of mindfulness.

Mindfulness