unscrutinized
- adjective
- /ʌnˈskruːtɪnaɪzd/
- Consequently, the healthcare profession has enjoyed relatively unscrutinized freedom to develop its complex culture.
- relatively unscrutinized
Examples
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Yet eliciting the informed and considered opinions of senior or retired professors can scarcely be more dangerous, or more likely to lead to politicized hiring, than leaving hiring to unaided and unscrutinized nonspecialists overwhelmed by masses of applications.
Academic text (2001) -
Awareness of cultural values embedded in food rules is an important step towards challenging the unscrutinized value system that supports social hierarchy.
Academic text (1992) -
Finally, food rules are part of a usually unscrutinized cultural ideology that continuously leads to the reinforcement of life as it is.
Academic text (1992) -
Most of these things are completely unscrutinized most of the time, especially by scientists, many of whom assume, as fshgrl and others have argued, that scientific research is subject to question as to its results and conclusions, but not as to the validity of its basic methodology.
Blog text (1) -
Most of this essay assesses heretofore relatively unscrutinized literary sources in Canon 7 about the construction of Deir Anba Shenouda's church.
Academic text (2004) -
The lobby plays and played a big part in turning any criticism of Israel's role as an asset (placing to the side the debate over whether it is still useful in its role as an asset) into a career-killer, so Israel's services to capital went unscrutinized, even within an ostensibly anti-capitalist left.
Blog text (29) -
The report revealed several unscrutinized expenses that raised questions about transparency.
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Many unscrutinized assumptions in the study led to skewed results and misguided conclusions.
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Her decision was based on unscrutinized data that had not been thoroughly analyzed.
Synonyms
Not checked or thought about carefully
No one watches or checks it
Not checked for safety or quality
Not looked into to find the cause or facts
Not yet checked by someone else for mistakes
Not checked for safety or quality
Not carefully checked or filtered and may contain errors
Not looked through or checked for something
Not given a decision or score yet
Not questioned or carefully checked
Not examined in detail for study
Not checked or given a value yet
Not yet checked for quality or value
How Examined
Surface Forms
Morphology
unscrutinized = scrutinized (transparent) = un + scrutinize + ed
A straightforward negation formed by prefixing un- to the past-participle 'scrutinized', yielding 'not examined'.
Etymology
Unscrutinized starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from scrutinize, which originally meant 'to search' or to look very carefully. So, if something is unscrutinized, it was 'not looked at closely'.