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unscrutinized

unscrutinized

8.4
Not looked at carefully
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈskruːtɪnaɪzd/
translation icon : no examinado
  • Consequently, the healthcare profession has enjoyed relatively unscrutinized freedom to develop its complex culture.
  • relatively unscrutinized

Examples

  • 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.

  • Many unscrutinized assumptions in the study led to skewed results and misguided conclusions.

  • Her decision was based on unscrutinized data that had not been thoroughly analyzed.

Synonyms

unexamined
vsunscrutinized
9 4.3

Not checked or thought about carefully

focuses on absence of a careful check rather than general neglect
unmonitored
vsunscrutinized
2 4.6

No one watches or checks it

describes not being checked carefully at a moment, not ongoing lack of supervision
uninspected
vsunscrutinized
1 4.6

Not checked for safety or quality

is the broader idea of not being checked carefully in general
uninvestigated
vsunscrutinized
1 6.8

Not looked into to find the cause or facts

refers to missing careful checking rather than a full fact-finding study
unreviewed
vsunscrutinized
1 4.1

Not yet checked by someone else for mistakes

emphasizes lack of a careful personal check rather than missing external review
unscreened
vsunscrutinized
1 5.6

Not checked for safety or quality

is about not being checked carefully in any way rather than formal testing
unsifted
vsunscrutinized
1 6.3

Not carefully checked or filtered and may contain errors

is the general absence of careful checking rather than a filtering process
unsearched
vsunscrutinized
1 4.9

Not looked through or checked for something

means no careful or thorough check more generally rather than a search
unjudged
vsunscrutinized
1 5.8

Not given a decision or score yet

is about not being checked carefully rather than awaiting a formal decision
uninterrogated
vsunscrutinized
8.1

Not questioned or carefully checked

is about lacking a careful or thorough check rather than formal questioning
unanalyzed
vsunscrutinized
7.0

Not examined in detail for study

is lacking a careful overall check rather than a detailed analysis
unassessed
vsunscrutinized
5.0

Not checked or given a value yet

refers to absence of careful checking rather than missing valuation
unevaluated
vsunscrutinized
5.6

Not yet checked for quality or value

highlights no careful checking rather than absence of formal assessment

How Examined

unscrutinized
8.4
unexamined
9 4.3

Surface Forms

unscrutinized positive

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'.