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uncritical

uncritical adjective: lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.

Adjective

uncritical (comparative more uncritical, superlative most uncritical)

  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
  2. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.
  3. Slow to criticize.
    • uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model

uncritical meaning in Tamil and Urdu

uncritical in Tamil

சீராய்வற்ற, திறனாய்வுமுறைப்படாத

uncritical in Urdu

غیرمعترضانہ, غیرناقدانہ

Examples of uncritical in a sentence

  • Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.
  • Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones.
  • It leads to an uncritical dichotomy between disorderly people and law abiders.

All 15 example sentences with uncritical

Antonyms of uncritical

Forms of uncritical

comparativemore uncritical
superlativemost uncritical

Origin of uncritical

From un- + critical.

Words formed from uncritical

Questions about uncritical

What does uncritical mean?
Uncritical means lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
What is uncritical in Tamil?
Uncritical in Tamil is சீராய்வற்ற, திறனாய்வுமுறைப்படாத. See Uncritical meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is uncritical?
Uncritical is an adjective.

Words near uncritical in the dictionary

  1. uncrippling
  2. uncrisp
  3. uncrisped
  4. uncrisping
  5. uncrisps
  6. uncritical
  7. uncritically
  8. uncriticalness
  9. uncriticisable
  10. uncriticised
  11. uncriticising

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