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dogmatic /dɒɡˈmatɪk /adjectiveInclined to lay down principles as undeniably true: she was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed...- Opinions are meant to be asserted - not in dogmatic, unyielding terms, but in confident terms.
- Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
- He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
Synonyms opinionated, peremptory, assertive, imperative, insistent, emphatic, adamant, doctrinaire, authoritarian, authoritative, domineering, imperious, high-handed, pontifical, arrogant, overbearing, dictatorial, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, rigid, entrenched, unquestionable, unchallengeable; intolerant, narrow-minded, small-minded Derivativesdogmatically /dɒɡˈmatɪk(ə)li / adverb ...- Unfortunately, his theory also dogmatically discounts the possibility of radical political change - in which violence and arbitrary power play at most a peripheral role.
- He has become a father for the first time, something which he loves but which plays havoc with his formerly mischievous and dogmatically obtuse attitude to the music industry.
- ‘I don't have to change anything,’ he says dogmatically.
OriginEarly 17th century (as a noun denoting a philosopher or physician of a school based on a priori assumptions): via late Latin from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat- (see dogma). Rhymesachromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic |