All doctrinaire synonyms
doc·tri·naire
D d adj doctrinaire
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
- biased — If someone is biased, they prefer one group of people to another, and behave unfairly as a result. You can also say that a process or system is biased.
- bigoted — Someone who is bigoted has strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions and will not change them, even when they are proved to be wrong.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- dogged — doggoned; damned; confounded: Well, I'll be dogged!
- fanatical — motivated or characterized by an extreme, uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- impractical — not practical or useful.
- inflexible — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
- insistent — earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
- magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
- mulish — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- obstinate — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- one-sided — considering but one side of a matter or question; partial or unfair: a one-sided judgment.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- rigid — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- unrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
adjective doctrinaire
- stern — rear of boat
- strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- unbending — not bending or curving; inflexible; rigid.
- dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- opinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
- biassed — a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
noun doctrinaire
- pedant — a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
- theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
- sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.