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Another word for dogmatic

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dogmatic

modif.

Based on an assumption of absolute truth
doctrinal, categorical, canonical, unchangeable, inevitable, immovable, unqualified, eternal, positive, authoritative, systematic, orthodox, formal, ex cathedra, pontifical, imperative, peremptory, theoretical, axiomatic, unerring, by fiat, on faith, as a matter of course, by nature, by God's will, by natural law; see also absolute 1.
Antonyms irresolute*, uncertain, whimsical.
Acting as though one possessed absolute truth
dictatorial, doctrinaire, opinionated, arbitrary, overbearing, arrogant, egotistical, bigoted, fanatical, intolerant, imperious, magisterial, domineering, authoritarian, pontifical, positive, peremptory, oracular, tyrannical, fascistic, despotic, obstinate, confident, downright, unequivocal, definite, stubborn, determined, emphatic, insistent, obdurate, closed-minded, narrow-minded, wrongheaded, one-sided, wedded to an opinion, hidebound, high and mighty*, stiff-necked*, hard-shell*, pushy*, pigheaded*, bullheaded*; see also absolute 3, autocratic 1, obstinate.
Antonyms tolerant, dubious, flexible.

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Another word for dogmatic

adjective

Devoted to certain doctrines without regard to practicability:
doctrinaire. See ability
Tending to dictate:
authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory. See over

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The favourite subjects of his lectures were logic and dogmatic theology.
Marguerite herself, however, was protected by her brother, and her personal inclinations seem to have been rather towards a mystical pietism than towards dogmatic Protestant sentiments.
Montpellier became distinguished for the practical and empirical spirit of its medicine, as contrasted with the dogmatic and scholastic teaching of Paris and other universities.
Within itself dogmatic atheism, and is probably the only coherent or reasoned type of atheistic opinion.
Whatever its faults may be - and it is for our successors to judge of these - there is this to be said in its favour: that it is in nowise dogmatic. The eloquence of facts appeals to the scientific mind nowadays much more than the assertion of crude and unproven principles.

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