unquestioningun‧ques‧tion‧ing /ʌnˈkwestʃənɪŋ/ adjective - their unquestioning obedience
- A religious insight like Julian's shows that a passive, unquestioning acceptance of received dogma is not enough.
- An unquestioning acceptance of the traditional academic curriculum, and vague aspirations about Mary Smith, would no longer do.
- Down deep, Clive was unimaginative, inactive, petty, unquestioning.
- He just went with it, unresisting and unquestioning.
- His life had been spent in unquestioning subservience, first to his parents and then to his elder brother.
- Perhaps, accustomed to Francis, she'd become unquestioning about others' ways of life.
- She supposed that marriage must be like that: an unquestioning acceptance of the weird ways of another.
- This can lead to unquestioning acceptance of what is really a hypothetical diagnosis.
► unquestioning obedience (=when you obey rules or a person without questioning whether they are right)· Even soldiers must not follow all orders with unquestioning obedience.
nounquestionquestioningquestionerquestionnaireadjectivequestionable ≠ unquestionablequestioning ≠ unquestioningunquestionedadverbunquestionablyquestioningly ≠ unquestioninglyverbquestion