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
- 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
- a priori
- arbitrary
- arrogant
- as a matter of course
- assertive
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- axiomatic
- bigoted
- bullheaded
- by fiat
- by natural law
- by nature
- canonical
- categorical
- cocksure
- confident
- deducible
- deductive
- definite
- derivable
- despotic
- determined
- dictative
- doctrinaire
- doctrinal
- domineering
- downright
- egotistical
- emphatic
- eternal
- excathedra
- fanatical
- fascistic
- formal
- high and mighty
- imperative
- imperious
- inevitable
- intolerant
- magisterial
- narrow-minded
- obdurate
- obstinate
- on faith
- one-sided
- oracular
- orthodox
- overbearing
- peremptory
- pigheaded
- positive
- pragmatic
- prejudiced
- prophetic
- reasoned
- stiff-necked
- stubborn
- systematic
- tenacious
- theoretical
- tyrannical
- unchangeable
- unequivocal
- unerring
- unqualified
- wrong-headed
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