dogmaticadjective
uk/dɒɡˈmæt.ɪk/us/dɑːɡˈmæt̬.ɪk/disapprovingIf you are dogmatic, you are certain that you are right and that everyone else is wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertiveness training
- assured
- brass
- breezy
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- ego
- forwardness
- hold your head (up) high idiom
- inadequacy
- positively
- safe
- sassy
- self-assertive
- self-assured
- self-belief
- self-confident
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dogmatically
adverb uk/dɒɡˈmæt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/dɑːɡˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl.i/
Examples from literature
- Do not, however, be dogmatic or arbitrary in saying what you think.
- In the first place there was the element of dogmatic teaching.
- It is as foolish to deny as to assert his existence in a dogmatic and thoughtless manner.
- The differences which have arisen between us are due to blind imitations of dogmatic beliefs and adherence to ancestral forms of worship.
- There are many lines that could be spared from the book you were reading, she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic.