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dog·mat·ic

 (dôg-măt′ĭk, dŏg-)
adj.
1. Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
2.
a. Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner: "People in recovery groups can be dogmatic, asserting that the group's way is 'the way' or bashing other approaches" (Anne M. Fletcher).
b. Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism: a dogmatic adherence to a single educational model.

[Late Latin dogmaticus, from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat-, belief; see dogma.]

dog·mat′i·cal·ly adv.
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dogmatic

(dɒɡˈmætɪk) or

dogmatical

adj
1.
a. (of a statement, opinion, etc) forcibly asserted as if authoritative and unchallengeable
b. (of a person) prone to making such statements
2. (Philosophy) of, relating to, or constituting dogma: dogmatic writings.
3. based on assumption rather than empirical observation
dogˈmatically adv
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dog•mat•ic

(dɔgˈmæt ɪk, dɒg-)

also dog•mat′i•cal,



adj.
1. of the nature of a dogma; doctrinal.
2. asserting opinions in a dictatorial manner; opinionated.
[1595–1605; < Late Latin < Greek]
dog•mat′i•cal•ly, adv.
dog•mat′i•cal•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.dogmatic - characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
narrow-minded, narrow - lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
2.dogmatic - of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
3.dogmatic - relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
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dogmatic

adjective
2. doctrinal, authoritative, categorical, canonical, oracular, ex cathedra Dogmatic socialism does not offer a magic formula.
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dogmatic

adjective
1. Devoted to certain doctrines without regard to practicability:
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Translations
عَقائِدي، يَتَكَلَّم بِلَهْجَةٍ جازِمَه
autoritativnídogmatický
dogmatisk
dogmatikus
kreddufastur, fullur af skoîanahroka
dogmatiškaidogmatiškas
dogmatisks
dogmatiköğretisel

dogmatic

[dɒgˈmætɪk] ADJdogmático
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dogmatic

[dɒgˈmætɪk] adj [person] → dogmatique
to be dogmatic about sth → être dogmatique sur qch
We ought not to be dogmatic about these matters → Nous ne devrions pas être dogmatiques sur ces questions.
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dogmatic

adjdogmatisch; dogmatic theologyDogmatik f; to be very dogmatic about somethingin etw (dat)sehr dogmatisch sein
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dogmatic

[dɒgˈmætɪk] adj (person, attitude) → dogmatico/a; (tone) → autoritario/a
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dogmatic

(dogˈmӕtik) adjective
tending to force one's own opinions on other people. He's very dogmatic on this subject.
dogˈmatically adverb
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References in classic literature ?
The question is this: Monsieur the Principal thinks that my thesis ought to be dogmatic and didactic."
You have merely made a few excited and dogmatic assertions about my mental caliber.
His aspect was probably as un-Sabbatarian a one as a dogmatic parson's son often presented; his attire being his dairy clothes, long wading boots, a cabbage-leaf inside his hat to keep his head cool, with a thistle-spud to finish him off.
He also becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates.
There is one sentence in it, however--namely: `I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?
He was dogmatic with those who did not venture to assert themselves, but with the self-assertive he was very modest.
Don't be dogmatic about it, and say this thing is and that thing isn't.
I handed him over the watch with some slight feeling of amusement in my heart, for the test was, as I thought, an impossible one, and I intended it as a lesson against the somewhat dogmatic tone which he occasionally assumed.
A student should not form his judgments merely from what is technically called the dogmatic point of view, but should try rather to adopt that of historical criticism.
The cathedral itself, that edifice formerly so dogmatic, invaded henceforth by the bourgeoisie, by the community, by liberty, escapes the priest and falls into the power of the artist.
"We cannot be dogmatic about it, but at least without what you have ventured to call monstrous conceit we can surely say that we are the highest thing in nature."
"There are many lines that could be spared from the book you were reading," she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic.