DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: NOUN
- A doctrinaire person.
- One who theorizes without a sufficient regard to practical considerations; a political theorist; an ideologist; one who undertakes to explain things by one narrow theory or group of theories, leaving out of view all other forces at work.
- In French history, during the period of the Restoration (1815-30) and later, one of a class of politicians and political philosophers who desired a constitution constructed on historical principles, especially after the analogy of the British constitution.
- One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively.
- A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
- A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
- A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
- An arrogantly assertive person.
- One who expresses or sets forth dogma.
- One who is dogmatic or maintains a dogma or dogmas; a magisterial teacher; one who asserts positively doctrines or opinions unsupported by argument or evidence.
- [capitalized] One of a sect of ancient physicians founded by Hippocrates, and named in contradistinction to Empirics and Methodists.
- One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.
- A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: ADJECTIVE
- Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
- Relating to, adhering to, or insisting upon a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations or problems.
- Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
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DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Characteristic of a doctrinaire or unpractical theorist; merely theoretical; insisting upon the exclusive importance of a one-sided theory.
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DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: RELATED WORDS
- Radical, Rationalistic, Liberal, Dirigiste, Liberalist, Reactionary, Absolutist, Statist, Sweeping, Doctrinal, Ideological, Dogmatic, Informative, Instructive, Dogmatist
- Positivist, Exclusivism, Relativist, Freethinker, Moralist, Empiricist, Absolutist, Ideologue, Scientism, Dogma, Determinist, Rationalist, Dogmatism, Religionist, Doctrinaire
DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Radical, Rationalistic, Liberal, Dirigiste, Liberalist, Reactionary, Absolutist, Statist, Sweeping, Doctrinal, Ideological, Dogmatic, Informative, Instructive, Dogmatist
- Positivist, Exclusivism, Relativist, Freethinker, Moralist, Empiricist, Absolutist, Ideologue, Scientism, Dogma, Determinist, Rationalist, Dogmatism, Religionist, Doctrinaire
DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- He is doctrinaire and, at the same time, lord of all he surveys.
- Although Bernstein has a gentle faith in tonality, his attitude is far from being doctrinaire or fundamentalist.
- Those of this persuasion tend to be more doctrinaire than informative when sharing their viewpoints.
- Day War was rigidly defined by his doctrinaire outlook on international affairs.
- Judge Bork often denied that he embraced a rigid or doctrinaire originalism.
- Chavez is an example of doctrinaire eclecticism and political pragmatism.
- Doctrinaire; above all, if he be philosolhical, moral, and religious.
- So mass the dominant doctrinaire qualities can be noted.
- Doctrinaire Christians will dismiss it out of hand.
- United States, and its own doctrinaire economic policies.
- As such, Harris also becomes a dogmatist, as I think is quite clearly shown in his discussion with Chomsky.
- The empirical scientist becomes a fanatical dogmatist by insisting that random mutation sans any formative principle explains it all.
- Because use of that that term pretty much identifies the speaker as a dogmatist.
- Whatever may be said of Stevenson, he was not a dogmatist.
DOCTRINAIRE vs DOGMATIST: QUESTIONS
- Is Gardiner's approach to Bach's music doctrinaire?
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