uncynical

Examples

• All

• The children's movie was surprisingly uncynical, promoting kindness and friendship without any hidden messages.

• Bardacke's letter of November 1989 offering (in Cockburn's words) "a better history of the New Left than some of the apologetics now creeping into print" is wonderfully honest and uncynical.

  Academic text (1996)

• Her uncynical nature made her believe in the goodness of people, even after facing challenges.

Synonyms

T

trusting

vsuncynical

12 2.1

Willing to believe people are honest

is about sincere innocence and general trust rather than quick belief

T

trustful

vsuncynical

2 3.2

A person who is ready to believe what other people tell them

shows broad sincerity and innocence rather than just believing others readily

U

unironic

vsuncynical

1 7.0

Showing real feeling and not meant as a joke

includes sincerity plus trust and innocence rather than only a genuine tone

U

unskeptical

vsuncynical

7.9

Ready to believe things and not likely to doubt them

has a more sincere and innocent attitude rather than merely lacking doubt

U

unsuspicious

vsuncynical

5.6

Not seeming likely to be dangerous or cause worry

expresses trust or innocence actively rather than only the absence of suspicion

Antonyms

C

cynical

208 6.5

Not trusting people to have good intentions and expecting them to act for themselves

S

suspicious

138 3.2

Not trusting other people or what they say

How Trusting

naive

312 4.1

trusting

12 2.1

uncynical

1 7.2

doubtful

25 3.0

suspicious

138 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology