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uncritically

uncritically

4 6.2
Without checking carefully whether something is true or fair
  • adverb
  • /ʌnˈkrɪtɪkli/
translation icon : incríticamente
  • Thus, what are presumably scientific facts are accepted uncritically by a gullible public.
  • uncritically accepted
  • uncritically adopted
  • uncritically embraced

So to me, it means loving fiercely, but not uncritically.

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Examples

  • One major outcome of their analytical strategies is that the idea of race is uncritically perpetuated and kept alive in our world.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Does it make sense to uncritically import it into anthropology?

    Academic text (2000)
  • So he says our own state of mind is very much like this whenever we uncritically abandoned ourselves.

  • Further, U.S. politics specialists uncritically accepted the condition and performance of Congress.

    Academic text (1996)
  • One of the problems with systems of assessment and grading is that they are often accepted uncritically.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Historians of Catholicism in America have uncritically embraced these works.

    Academic text (2003)
  • In the Board's view, history is a monolithic, static object to be accepted uncritically.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Instead, a host of economically foolish but politically popular schemes was uncritically adopted and hastily launched.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Planned expenditures were uncritically geared to projected oil revenues rather than what the country could absorb.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Many people accept advertisements uncritically, believing everything they see is true.

Synonyms

unquestioningly
vsuncritically
4 6.5

They do or accept something without any doubt

lacks critical judgment and analysis rather than only avoiding questions
credulously
vsuncritically
1 7.7

In a way that shows you believe things too easily

describes a broader lack of critical analysis not limited to trusting belief
unreflectively
vsuncritically
7.0

In a way that shows little careful thought before acting

shows missing critical judgment and analysis rather than just low thought

Antonyms

106 4.4

In a careful way that looks for faults

How Critically

harshly
49 3.5
critically
106 4.4
neutrally
2 3.6
uncritically
4 6.2
tolerantly
1 4.1

Surface Forms

uncritically positive

Morphology

uncritically = uncritical (transparent) = un + critical + ly

The adverb is formed by adding -ly to 'uncritical', and the negative sense from 'un-' + 'critical' is a straightforward, regular derivation.

Etymology

Uncritically is made from un- meaning 'not' and critical, which is related to critic meaning 'to judge'. So uncritically means doing something 'without judging' or without careful thought.