uncritical

The word “uncritical” has 4 syllables: un-crit-i-cal

It's pronounced as /ʌnˈkrɪtɪkəl/


What is synonym and antonym for uncritical?

In the thesaurus, “uncritical” has 42 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for uncritical along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for uncritical

  • aw-shucks
  • beguiled
  • believing
  • callow
  • careless
  • childish
  • childlike
  • credulous
  • dewy
  • dewy-eyed
  • duped
  • green
  • gullable
  • gulled
  • gullible
  • heedless
  • idealistic
  • immature
  • impractical
  • inexperienced
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • naif
  • naive
  • primitive
  • raw
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • susceptible
  • thoughtless
  • tricked
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • unguarded
  • unknowing
  • unrealistic
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • unworldly
  • wide-eyed

Antonyms for uncritical

  • careful
  • cautious
  • cosmopolitan
  • critical
  • cynical
  • doubting
  • down-to-earth
  • experienced
  • guarded
  • hardheaded
  • incredulous
  • knowing
  • leary
  • leery
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • realistic
  • skeptical
  • sober
  • sophisticated
  • street-smart
  • streetwise
  • suspecting
  • suspicious
  • unconvinced
  • wary
  • watchful
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise

Meanings of uncritical

  • adjective
    1. Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
    2. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.
    3. Slow to criticize.

Example Sentences

  • He gave an uncritical acceptance of everything he heard.
  • The audience showed an uncritical enthusiasm for the speaker’s ideas.
  • Teachers should avoid encouraging uncritical thinking among students.
  • Her support was loyal but sometimes too uncritical.
  • The article was criticized for being uncritical of the government’s actions.

On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to uncritical, such as: aw-shucks, beguiled, believing, callow, careful, careless, cautious.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

easy

easygoing

naif

  • amateur
  • angel
  • apprentice
  • aw-shucks
  • babe
  • beginner
  • beguiled
  • believing
  • callow
  • careless
  • cherub
  • childish
  • childlike
  • colt
  • credulous
  • cub
  • dewy
  • dewy-eyed
  • dove
  • dupe
  • duped
  • fledgling
  • green
  • greenhorn
  • gullable
  • gulled
  • gullible
  • hayseed
  • heedless
  • idealistic
  • immature
  • impractical
  • inexperienced
  • ingenue
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • lamb
  • learner
  • naive
  • neophyte
  • new hand
  • newbie
  • newcomer
  • novice
  • pigeon
  • primitive
  • raw
  • recruit
  • rube
  • saint
  • sap
  • sheep
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • simpleton
  • softie
  • softy
  • sucker
  • susceptible
  • tenderfoot
  • thoughtless
  • tricked
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • tyro
  • uncritical
  • unguarded
  • unknowing
  • unrealistic
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • unworldly
  • virgin
  • weakling
  • wide-eyed
  • wimp

naive

  • aboveboard
  • acquiescent
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • artless
  • aw-shucks
  • beguiled
  • believing
  • callow
  • candid
  • careless
  • childish
  • childlike
  • confiding
  • countrified
  • credulous
  • deceivable
  • dewy
  • dewy-eyed
  • direct
  • duped
  • easy
  • exploitable
  • fictile
  • forthright
  • frank
  • free
  • free-spoken
  • fresh
  • gee-whiz
  • genuine
  • green
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gulled
  • gullible
  • harmless
  • heedless
  • honest
  • idealistic
  • ignorant
  • immature
  • impractical
  • impressionable
  • impulsive
  • inexperienced
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • instinctive
  • jejune
  • lamb
  • like a babe in the woods
  • malleable
  • naif
  • natural
  • obliging
  • on the level
  • open
  • openhearted
  • original
  • overcredulous
  • patsy
  • persuadable
  • persuasible
  • plain
  • plainspoken
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • primitive
  • raw
  • real
  • simple
  • simple-minded
  • simpleminded
  • sincere
  • single-minded
  • spontaneous
  • square
  • straight
  • straightforward
  • sucker
  • susceptible
  • thoughtless
  • tricked
  • true
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • unaffected
  • uncritical
  • unforced
  • unguarded
  • unjaded
  • unknowing
  • unpretending
  • unpretentious
  • unrealistic
  • unschooled
  • unsophisticated
  • unstudied
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • untaught
  • unwary
  • unworldly
  • virgin
  • wide-eyed
  • yielding

objectless

  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aimless
  • any which way
  • arbitrary
  • bits and pieces
  • blind
  • by-the-way
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • catch-as-catch-can
  • chance
  • charitable
  • contingent
  • designless
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • driftless
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • fluky
  • forgiving
  • fortuitous
  • frivolous
  • goalless
  • haphazard
  • heedless
  • helter-skelter
  • hit-or-miss
  • incidental
  • indecisive
  • indiscriminate
  • indiscriminating
  • irregular
  • irresolute
  • odd
  • pointless
  • promiscuous
  • purposeless
  • random
  • scattered
  • shiftless
  • slapdash
  • spot
  • stray
  • thoughtless
  • unaimed
  • unavailing
  • unconsidered
  • uncritical
  • undemanding
  • undirected
  • undiscriminating
  • unfussy
  • unguided
  • unplanned
  • unpredictable
  • unpremeditated
  • unselective
  • unsystematic
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • wanton
  • wayward

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