judgmental

American  

[juhj-men-tl] / dʒʌdʒˈmɛn tl /

especially British, judgemental

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.

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judgmental British  

/ dʒʌdʒˈmɛntəl /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• judgmentally adverb
• unjudgmental adjective

Etymology

Origin of judgmental

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

Example Sentences

I might have died from awkwardness if I’d been exposed to another family’s private business, but Emma doesn’t seem like the judgmental type.

From Literature

“It was just full of very proper people, but very judgmental, and there were secrets on the street,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

He recalls that it read, “Be curious, not judgmental.”

From Salon

They often hid this habit from their children, who would be judgmental or alarmed.

From The Wall Street Journal

They were trying to avoid seeming judgmental, unenlightened or disloyal to a socially expected script.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• subjective