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uncritical

adj

Etymology

From un- + critical.

  1. derived from κριτικός
  2. formed as uncritical — “un- + critical”

Definitions

  1. Lacking critique or critical examination

    Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.

    • an uncritical review
    • Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]
    • More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.

  2. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.

  3. Slow to criticize.

    • uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at uncritical. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at uncritical. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at uncritical

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA