unargumentativeadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective]
high?1535
Arctic1593
magistral1596
forward1608
confident1611
magisterial1635
pragmatic1638
high-flown1640
affirmative1650
thetical1653
positive1658
pragmatical1660
dogmatical1662
dogmatic1681
unargumentative1722
ultra1820
doctrinaire1834
cocksure1842
doctrinary1846
unevidential1853
Doctrinarian1878
pontificating1922
fundamentalist1928
hardcore1951
1722 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. I. Pref. p. ii The most..impudent and unargumentative weekly Paper the Town was ever infested with.
1837 G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Justif. v. 235 The doctrine would not have been a whit the worse, had the..unargumentative curses been omitted.
1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. v. 119 The inward voice of that solemn Monitor, personal, peremptory, unargumentative.
Derivatives
unarguˈmentatively adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adverb]
magistrallya1603
pragmatically1606
magisterially1625
thetically1657
dogmatically1664
magisteriously1673
judiciously1728
unargumentatively1840
cocksurely1887
1840 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Regeneration 66 Just as if the writers unargumentatively thought, that no one..could ever doubt its propriety.
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