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Dogmatic

Dogmatic Meaning & Definition
Dogmatic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dogmatic?

[adj] characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
[adj] relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dogmatic: dogmatical | narrow | narrow-minded

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dogmatic: a priori | antiblack | arbitrary | arrogant | assertive | assured | authoritarian | authoritative | balking | balky | believing | biased | bigoted | blind | bulldogged | bulletheaded | bullheaded | canonical | case-hardened | categorical | certain | chauvinistic | colored | conceited | confessional | confident | convinced | creedal | creedbound | deaf | deducible | derivable | devout | dictatorial | doctrinaire | doctrinal | doctrinarian | dogged | dogmatizing | domineering | doubtless | emphatic | evangelical | faithful | fanatic | fideistic | fundamentalist | hardheaded | headstrong | hidebound | hyperorthodox | imperious | impressed with | influenced | insistent | interested | intolerant | jaundiced | know-nothing | literalist | literalistic | magisterial | mulish | nonobjective | obdurate | obstinate | one-sided | opinionated | opinionative | opinioned | oracular | overbearing | overzealous | partial | partisan | peremptory | persevering | persuaded | pertinacious | pietistic | pigheaded | pious | pistic | pontifical | positive | positivistic | precisianist | precisianistic | prejudiced | prepossessed | pronunciative | purist | puristic | puritanical | pushy | racist | reasoned | restive | Sabbatarian | satisfied | secure | self-opinionated | self-opinioned | self-willed | set | sexist | sold on | staunch | stiff-necked | straitlaced | strict | strongheaded | strong-willed | stubborn | sulky | sullen | superpatriotic | sure | swayed | tenacious | twisted | ultranationalist | uncooperative | under the impression | undetached | undispassionate | undoubtful | undoubting | unpersuadable | unregenerate | warped | willful | xenophobic

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Dogmatic In Webster's Dictionary

\Dog*mat"ic\, n. One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the {Empiric}.
\Dog*mat"ic\, Dogmatical \Dog*mat`ic*al\, a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dogmatique.] 1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet. 2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. -- Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. -- Glanvill. {Dogmatic theology}. Same as {Dogmatics}. Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See {Magisterial}.

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