unquestioning

English

Etymology

From un- + questioning.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unquestioning (comparative more unquestioning, superlative most unquestioning)

1. Believing without question; having absolute loyalty.

   Synonyms: faithful, doubtless, questionless

2. (chiefly derogatory) Naive, blind, uncritical.

   unquestioning faith

   • 1971, Jearld F. Moldenhauer, “Sweeping Statements”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 16:

     Man's awareness of himself, the resulting realization and fear of his own mortality, cast him out of unquestioning eternity into time-consciousness -- into the disorientation of being able to reflect but not to totally understand

Derived terms

• unquestioningly
• unquestioningness

Translations

believing without question

• Finnish: ehdoton (fi)
• Serbo-Croatian: neupitno (sh)
• Spanish: incuestionante, non cuestionante

Further reading

• “unquestioning”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “unquestioning”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “unquestioning” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.