Antonyms for dogmatic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dawg-mat-ik, dog-

Phonetic Transcription : dɔgˈmæt ɪk, dɒg-

Definition of dogmatic

Origin : 1670s, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Greek dogmatikos "pertaining to doctrines," from dogma (see dogma). Related: Dogmatical (c.1600).

adj dictatorial, opinionated
adj based on absolute truth

Example sentences :

A like dogmatic partisanship obtains in the question of defences.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

It is his very ignorance of a matter that makes him dogmatic.
Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 » by Various

However, I give you leave to be as dogmatic and didactic as you like in return.
Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro

"I'll find out presently that I am alive yet," he declared, in a dogmatic tone.
Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad

Mr. Travers' voice went on dogmatic and obstinate for a long time.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

True, she had acted from high moral sense of duty, but conscience is often dogmatic.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

The power that has said to all these things that they are damned, is Dogmatic Science.
Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort

And this applies not to moral questions only, but to dogmatic also.
Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman

From the very outset his spirit is that of dogmatic confidence.
Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley

It has more to say about the Sermon on the Mount than about any system of dogmatic theology.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

Synonyms for dogmatic

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