Uncritical

a. [UN-¹ 7. Cf. Du. onkritisch, G. unkritisch, Da. ukritisk.]

  1.  Not critical; lacking in judgment; not addicted to criticism.

1659.  Gauden, Tears Church, I. i. 24. We are not so rude understanders, or uncriticall speakers.

1767.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, X. xxiv. A most uncritical fever which attacked me at the beginning of this chapter.

1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 361. She discovered none of the imputed sublimity; her uncritical eye could only scan the tremendous number of pages.

1854.  Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2), 20. It has been the ungrateful fashion of some modern historians to speak of him as an uncritical retailer of anecdotes.

1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xx. He played … well enough to satisfy the uncritical audience.

  absol.  1874.  Spencer, Study Sociol., v. 81. Statements … readily accepted by the uncritical who believe all they see in print.

  2.  Showing lack of criticism or critical exactness; not in accordance with critical methods.

1846.  J. Kenrick, Ess. Primæval Hist., Pref. p. xii. An arbitrary and uncritical preference of the Septuagint to the Hebrew.

1855.  J. Phillips, Man. Geology, 420. A perverse and uncritical application of the Mosaic narrative.

1874.  Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, vii. 215. It is uncritical to judge an age by its greatest men.

  Hence Uncritically adv.

1807.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. 402. Huntington, however, copies it, uncritically.

1858.  Spencer, in Westm. Rev., July, 195. We see that the notion, of late years idly repeated and uncritically received,… involves us in sundry absurdities.

1895.  Blackw. Mag., Nov., 634/1. You took with you a temperament uncritically alert to fresh impressions.