UNCRITICAL Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

uncritical

adjective

ˌən-ˈkri-ti-kəl

Definition of uncritical

as in naive

lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment had an uncritical trust in the nation's leaders

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Recent Examples of uncritical The Jewish establishment has long demanded uncritical support for Israel. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 In mid-2025, when mainstream analyst firms were still parroting uncritical AI hype before investor sentiment turned cold in December, the number of US AI users who regularly paid for the privilege stood at a whopping 3 percent. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 Feb. 2026 In a long-ago movie, emblematic of America’s uncritical, dangerous addiction to nostalgia, Kevin Costner played a farmer who mows down his corn field in order to create a baseball diamond so that the ghosts of former baseball players can come and play there. — Sayantani Dasgupta february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 The letter went on to criticize the ways in which the Berlinale has remained uncritical of the German government’s ongoing funding toward Israel’s genocide in Gaza. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for uncritical

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Sutskever is portrayed as the idealistic, naive hero — the ingenious mind behind the lab’s entire existence who can’t stomach lying and is reluctant to accumulate any power.

— Hayden Field, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026
Rebecca and Verity, which stars Johnson, are also about a new, naïve lover entering the home of a bad man with a wife hidden in his house of horrors.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026

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More than 150 innocent civilians were also killed in those strikes, according to a report released by the Pentagon this August.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
In England, poet William Cowper portrayed Mai as an innocent corrupted by European society.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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