uncritical

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ critical.

Adjective

uncritical (comparative more uncritical, superlative most uncritical)

1. 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.

2. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Slow to criticize.

   uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model

Antonyms

• (all senses): critical

Related terms

• noncritical

Translations

indulgent or undiscriminating; slow to criticize

• Finnish: kritiikitön
• German: unkritisch (de)
• Polish: bezkrytyczny (pl)
• Romanian: necritic, indulgent (ro)

having a disregard for critical standards or procedures

• Finnish: huolimaton (fi), välinpitämätön (fi)