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单词 dogmatic
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Definition of dogmatic in English:

dogmatic

adjective dɒɡˈmatɪkdɔɡˈmædɪk
  • Inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true.

    she was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It appears to be a prudential judgment of the Pope's, not a dogmatic statement.
    • The evidence on both sides rather took the form of dogmatic assertions.
    • Cell Theory then rapidly turned into a more dogmatic cell doctrine, and in this form survives up to the present day.
    • The problem many have with a dogmatic acceptance of any theory, scientific or not, is a lack of proof.
    • Another fault among instructors is a tendency to be unyielding and dogmatic.
    • The important lesson is that an inflexible dogmatic approach to equity investing will end in tears whatever it may be.
    • Opinions are meant to be asserted - not in dogmatic, unyielding terms, but in confident terms.
    • By contrast the authority's expert witness was emphatic, even dogmatic, in his evidence.
    • Peer pressure works among adults no less than the young and it's a dogmatic dictator.
    • He's not entirely dogmatic about it and he'll make an exception whenever he's enthused enough by the work.
    • As the next generation of leaders, we must be willing to be self-critical if we wish to avoid becoming dogmatic.
    • Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
    • This assertion might sound brutally dogmatic, but its economic basis is exceptionally solid.
    • There could be few things more dogmatic than the many dictates of Leftist political correctness!
    • He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
    • A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues.
    • After all, it is, I suppose, a bit dogmatic to absolutely insist the whole thing is state controlled.
    • He reacted against it as an institution with an unbendingly dogmatic definition of itself.
    • They must beware of becoming dogmatic and opinionated and strive to keep an open mind and their opinions flexible.
    • Put the other way around, the respondent is more likely to be dogmatic, technical and uncompromising.
    Synonyms
    opinionated, peremptory, assertive, imperative, insistent, emphatic, adamant, doctrinaire, authoritarian, authoritative, domineering, imperious, high-handed, pontifical, arrogant, overbearing, dictatorial, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, rigid, entrenched, unquestionable, unchallengeable
    intolerant, narrow-minded, small-minded

Derivatives

  • dogmatically

  • adverb dɒɡˈmatɪk(ə)lidɔɡˈmædək(ə)li
    • ‘I don't have to change anything,’ he says dogmatically.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Had we done that at the time, there would have been an outcry that we were acting dogmatically, that this was Old Labour back.
      • Unfortunately, his theory also dogmatically discounts the possibility of radical political change - in which violence and arbitrary power play at most a peripheral role.
      • Markets, we are told, rather dogmatically, ‘expand opportunity for most people.’
      • He has become a father for the first time, something which he loves but which plays havoc with his formerly mischievous and dogmatically obtuse attitude to the music industry.

Origin

Early 17th century (as a noun denoting a philosopher or physician of a school based on a priori assumptions): via late Latin from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat- (see dogma).

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic
 
 

Definition of dogmatic in US English:

dogmatic

adjectivedɔɡˈmædɪkdôɡˈmadik
  • Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

    he gives his opinion without trying to be dogmatic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's not entirely dogmatic about it and he'll make an exception whenever he's enthused enough by the work.
    • He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
    • They must beware of becoming dogmatic and opinionated and strive to keep an open mind and their opinions flexible.
    • Peer pressure works among adults no less than the young and it's a dogmatic dictator.
    • He reacted against it as an institution with an unbendingly dogmatic definition of itself.
    • The evidence on both sides rather took the form of dogmatic assertions.
    • The problem many have with a dogmatic acceptance of any theory, scientific or not, is a lack of proof.
    • Another fault among instructors is a tendency to be unyielding and dogmatic.
    • A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues.
    • This assertion might sound brutally dogmatic, but its economic basis is exceptionally solid.
    • After all, it is, I suppose, a bit dogmatic to absolutely insist the whole thing is state controlled.
    • Put the other way around, the respondent is more likely to be dogmatic, technical and uncompromising.
    • It appears to be a prudential judgment of the Pope's, not a dogmatic statement.
    • By contrast the authority's expert witness was emphatic, even dogmatic, in his evidence.
    • There could be few things more dogmatic than the many dictates of Leftist political correctness!
    • Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
    • Cell Theory then rapidly turned into a more dogmatic cell doctrine, and in this form survives up to the present day.
    • Opinions are meant to be asserted - not in dogmatic, unyielding terms, but in confident terms.
    • The important lesson is that an inflexible dogmatic approach to equity investing will end in tears whatever it may be.
    • As the next generation of leaders, we must be willing to be self-critical if we wish to avoid becoming dogmatic.
    Synonyms
    opinionated, peremptory, assertive, imperative, insistent, emphatic, adamant, doctrinaire, authoritarian, authoritative, domineering, imperious, high-handed, pontifical, arrogant, overbearing, dictatorial, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, rigid, entrenched, unquestionable, unchallengeable

Origin

Early 17th century (as a noun denoting a philosopher or physician of a school based on a priori assumptions): via late Latin from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat- (see dogma).

 
 
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