dogmatistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdɒɡ.mə.tɪst/us/ˈdɑːɡ.mə.t̬ɪst/disapprovinga person who believes too strongly that their personal opinions or beliefs are correct
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Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertiveness training
- assured
- brass
- breezy
- dogmatic
- dogmatism
- ego
- forwardness
- hold your head (up) high idiom
- inadequacy
- positively
- safe
- sassy
- self-assertive
- self-assured
- self-belief
- self-confident
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Examples from literature
- Every man, probably, is by instinct a dogmatist.
- Is it necessary to say more to convince even a dogmatist?
- Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.
- The dogmatists have been trying to answer this objection ever since the world began.
- These dogmatists have given rise to much hypocrisy.