judgmental

[ juhj-men-tl ]

adjective

1. involving the use or exercise of judgment.
2. tending to make quick and excessively critical judgments, especially moral ones:

   to avoid a judgmental approach in dealing with divorced couples.

judgmental

/ dʒʌdʒˈmɛntəl /

adjective

1. of or denoting an attitude in which judgments about other people's conduct are made

Other Words From

• judg·mental·ly adverb
• unjudg·mental adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of judgmental¹

First recorded in 1905–10; judgment + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Reality TV offers us a safe space to be judgmental, and “Love Is Blind” offers us an expansive, cushioned one.

From Salon

Murphy and his co-creators could have used any denomination's religious institutional hypocrisy, but the Catholic church is irresistibly theatrical and has a track record of sex scandals and being judgmental.

From Salon

The septuagenarian student said people now were not "as judgmental" as they had been in the past, adding: "You don't get put in a compartment so much."

From BBC

“God save the most judgmental creeps who say they want what’s best for me,” she sings, “Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see.”

From Los Angeles Times

“She was very understanding. You can talk to her about anything and she wasn’t going to be judgmental, she was just going to listen.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• subjective