MEANING
Accepting claims or ideas without adequately examining their evidence, assumptions, or weaknesses.
Use it for
criticizing acceptance without checking evidence; describing unquestioning reliance on an authority; warning against adopting a theory without examining assumptionsIdentifies acceptance without adequate scrutiny, without asserting that the accepted claim must be false. Academic functions: Evidence, Argumentation, Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- uncritical acceptance
- uncritical reliance on
- an uncritical reading of
On the page
Uncritical reliance on national averages can conceal large regional differences.
The essay challenges an uncritical reading of the narrator as a reliable witness.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- uncritical
Usage notes
Attributive and predicative adjective. More uncritical and most uncritical are natural; avoid uncriticaler. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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