unquestioning

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adjective

Believing without question; having absolute loyalty.

“unquestioning faith”

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Meanings

adjectiveunquestioning (comparative more unquestioning, superlative most unquestioning)

comparative more unquestioning · superlative most unquestioning

  1. Believing without question; having absolute loyalty.

    Synonyms: faithful, doubtless, questionless

  2. derogatoryNaive, blind, uncritical.

    unquestioning faith

    1 more example

    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

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

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveBelieving without question; having absolute loyalty.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot inclined to ask questions

Similar

adjectivebeing without doubt or reserve

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishquestioning
  9. Englishunquestioning

From un- + questioning.

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Translations

Finnish ehdoton
  • ehdotonbelieving without question
Spanish incuestionante, non cuestionante
  • incuestionantebelieving without question
  • non cuestionantebelieving without question
Cite this entry
APA

unquestioning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquestioning

MLA

“unquestioning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquestioning. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unquestioning,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquestioning.

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