Antonyms of adj uncritical

2 senses of uncritical

Sense 1
uncritical (vs. critical), noncritical -- (marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts")

critical (vs. uncritical) -- (characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings")
        => appraising (prenominal), evaluative -- (exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms")
        => discriminative, judicial -- (expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett)

Sense 2
uncritical (vs. critical) -- (not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer")

critical (vs. uncritical) -- (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude")
        => captious, faultfinding -- (tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor")
        => censorious -- (harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings")
        => deprecative -- (given to expressing disapproval)
        => hypercritical, overcritical -- (inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality")
        => searing -- (severely critical)
        => scathing, vituperative -- (marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing")

Similarity of adj uncritical

2 senses of uncritical

Sense 1
uncritical (vs. critical), noncritical -- (marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts")
          Also See-> unscholarly#1

Sense 2
uncritical (vs. critical) -- (not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer")

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