dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), n.
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general
principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. dogmatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), dogmatical
\dog*mat`ic*al\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr.
dogmatiko`s, fr. do`gma: cf. F. dogmatique.]
1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized
doctrine or tenet.
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2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively;
positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative;
overbearing.
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Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. --
Spectator.
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[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they
were omniscient. -- Glanvill.
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Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.
Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dogmatic
adj 1: characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or
unprovable principles [syn: dogmatical]
2: relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "dogmatic":
Sabbatarian, 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, satisfied,
secure, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, set, sexist,
sold on, staunch, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, strong-willed,
strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, superpatriotic, sure,
swayed, tenacious, twisted, ultranationalist, uncooperative,
under the impression, undetached, undispassionate, undoubtful,
undoubting, unpersuadable, unregenerate, warped, willful,
xenophobic
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dogmatical
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