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DOGMATICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dogmatical mean?
• DOGMATICAL (adjective)
The adjective DOGMATICAL has 1 sense:
1. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
Familiarity information: DOGMATICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative)
Context examples
She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed's; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,—very intolerable, in short.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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