DOGMATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dogmatic mean? 

• DOGMATIC (adjective)
  The adjective DOGMATIC has 3 senses:

1. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

2. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

3. relating to or involving dogma

  Familiarity information: DOGMATIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGMATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

Synonyms:

dogmatic; dogmatical

Similar:

narrow; narrow-minded (lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view)

Derivation:

dogma (a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

dogma (a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative)

Derivation:

dogma (a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Relating to or involving dogma

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

dogmatic writings

Pertainym:

dogma (a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof)

Derivation:

dogma (a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative)

 Context examples 

As for the rest, they were numskulls, ninnies, superficial, dogmatic, and ignorant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the whole, the wisest man was the least dogmatic upon the point.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This sort of nose is usually a short and coarse one, but there is a sufficient number of exceptions to prevent me from being dogmatic or from insisting upon this point in my description.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"There are many lines that could be spared from the book you were reading," she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)