unexamined

adjective

un·​ex·​am·​ined ˌən-ig-ˈza-mənd 

: not subjected to examination (such as critical scrutiny, analysis, or comparison) : not carefully weighed or examined

… encouraging students to question their own unexamined beliefs …

—Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

With every aspect of public education coming under increased scrutiny, no program is left unexamined.

—Patty Kohler and Jacque Reese

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

—translation of Socrates, as quoted in Plato's Apology

Examples of unexamined in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The habit of taking the Gospels as repositories of a community’s oral tradition, Walsh suggests, is an unexamined inheritance from nineteenth-century German Romanticism. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025

Market shakeouts are about testing risk tolerances, forcing a rethink of unexamined premises and, at times, chastening the arrogant. —Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025

Much of this has to do with the underlying frame of the show, which possesses a whole dimension of unexamined one-percentism. —Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025

But ignorance is also power if not knowing certain things or leaving certain things unexamined permit you to continue in your life and not be paralyzed. —Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unexamined

• amand
• examined
• reexamined