UNCRITICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncritical mean? 

• UNCRITICAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNCRITICAL has 2 senses:

1. marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures

2. not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors

  Familiarity information: UNCRITICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCRITICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures

Synonyms:

noncritical; uncritical

Context example:

news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts

Also:

unscholarly (not scholarly)

Antonym:

critical (characterized by careful evaluation and judgment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors

Context example:

a devoted and almost uncritical admirer

Antonym:

critical (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws)

 Context examples 

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.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)