Dogmatic
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English
Adjective
Dogmatic (comparative more Dogmatic, superlative most Dogmatic)
- (philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
- Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
- Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
Adverbs for Dogmatic
unwarrantably; disagreeably; confidently; marvelously; unaccountably; egotistically; cruelly; harshly; severely; conceitedly; bumptiously; ecclesiastically; tyrannically; officially; inexorably; stiffly; dangerously; dourly; narrowly; fundamentally; purely; utterly; singularly; austerely; arrogantly; proudly; unyieldingly; solidly; absolutely; definitely; positively; fanatically; superficially; intolerantly; provincially; remarkably; fussily; peremptorily; emphatically; solemnly.
Synonyms for Dogmatic
positive, immovable, unchangeable, opinionated, dictatorial, imperious, peremptory, overbearing, authoritative, doctrinal, arrogant, domineering.
Antonyms for Dogmatic
uncertain, wavering, doubtful, ambiguous, skeptical, hesitating, equivocal, dubious, hesitant, unsettled, fluctuating, vacillating, indecisive.
Thesaurus
Sabbatarian, a priori, antiblack, arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, assured, authoritarian, authoritative, balking, balky, believing, biased, bigoted, blind, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, canonical, case-hardened, categorical, certain, chauvinistic, colored, conceited, confessional, confident, convinced, creedal, creedbound, deaf, deducible, derivable, devout, dictatorial, doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatizing, domineering, doubtless, emphatic, evangelical, faithful, fanatic, fideistic, fundamentalist, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, hyperorthodox, imperious, impressed with, influenced, insistent, interested, intolerant, jaundiced, know-nothing, literalist, literalistic, magisterial, mulish, nonobjective, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, overbearing, overzealous, partial, partisan, peremptory, persevering, persuaded, pertinacious, pietistic, pigheaded, pious, pistic, pontifical, positive, positivistic, precisianist, precisianistic, prejudiced, prepossessed, pronunciative, purist, puristic, puritanical, pushy, racist, reasoned, restive, satisfied, secure, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, set, sexist, sold on, staunch, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, superpatriotic, sure, swayed, tenacious, twisted, ultranationalist, uncooperative, under the impression, undetached, undispassionate, undoubtful, undoubting, unpersuadable, unregenerate, warped, willful, xenophobic
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Etymology
From French dogmatique, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (“didactic”), from δόγμα (“dogma”).
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Romanian
Adjective
Dogmatic m. and n.
- dogmatic
