absolutist
No compromise believer
An absolutist holds uncompromising views, rejecting nuance or middle ground: She's an absolutist about free speech.
The term often carries a faintly critical edge, suggesting rigidity.
In political theory, an absolutist supports absolute monarchy—rule without constitutional limits.
As an adjective, absolutist describes such positions or tendencies: an absolutist approach to ethics.
Sole wielder of power
- despotRuler with absolute power
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
- dictatorRuler with total control
- monarchHereditary supreme ruler
sovereign · totalitarian · authoritarian · czar · sultan · emperor · pharaoh · potentate
Asserting opinions as facts
- doctrinaireRigidly attached to doctrine
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
creed · tenet · infallibility · certainty · unchallengeable · unquestionable · gospel · axiom
Unable to bend
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- intransigentRefusing to compromise
- adamantStubbornly refusing to yield
- rigidUnable to bend
hardline · unbending · implacable · unwavering · steadfast · resolute · iron-willed · diehard
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
empiricism · idealism · realism · Platonism · determinism · objectivism · universalism · natural law
autocrat
Sole wielder of power
monarch · sovereign · totalitarian · authoritarian · czar · sultan · emperor · pharaoh · potentate · overlord
dogmatic
Asserting opinions as facts
- doctrinaireRigidly attached to doctrine
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
doctrine · creed · tenet · infallibility · certainty · unchallengeable · unquestionable · gospel · axiom · fundamentalism
inflexible
Unable to bend
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- intransigentRefusing to compromise
- adamantStubbornly refusing to yield
rigid · hardline · unbending · implacable · unwavering · steadfast · resolute · iron-willed · diehard · staunch
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
rationalism · empiricism · idealism · realism · Platonism · determinism · objectivism · universalism · natural law · categorical
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- oppressivestifling, suffocating, smothering, crushing, repressive
- philosophical termsSocratic, Kantian, Cartesian, Aristotelian, dialectical
- rigid thinkersdogmatist, fundamentalist, doctrinaire
- rigid thinkingrigid, dogmatic, doctrinaire, rule-bound, by-the-book
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
absolutistdemocrat
Advocate for popular rule
constitutionalist · parliamentarian · republican · accountable · federalist
absolutistrelativist
One who denies absolutes
contextualist · subjectivist · pluralist · pragmatist · situationist
absolutistmoderate
Lessen intensity or preside
centrist · compromiser · gradualist · pragmatist · incrementalist