DOGMATIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dogmatist mean? 

• DOGMATIST (noun)
  The noun DOGMATIST has 1 sense:

1. a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

  Familiarity information: DOGMATIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGMATIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doctrinaire; dogmatist

Hypernyms ("dogmatist" is a kind of...):

drumbeater; partisan; zealot (a fervent and even militant proponent of something)

Derivation:

dogmatise (speak dogmatically)

dogmatise (state as a dogma)

dogmatism (the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot)

dogmatize (speak dogmatically)

dogmatize (state as a dogma)

 Context examples 

You have nothing to stand on, you unscientific dogmatists with your positive science which you are always lugging about into places it has no right to be.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I wonder if you realize that, you dogmatist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You are a sheer dogmatist, and that's what makes it so marvellous.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)