dogmatist
Unquestioning doctrine holder
A dogmatist is someone who asserts opinions as if they were established truths, brooking no disagreement.
The word implies rigidity and arrogance—a dogmatist doesn't argue or persuade but pronounces: The old dogmatist dismissed every objection without consideration.
Related to dogma and dogmatic, all suggesting fixed belief impervious to evidence or debate.
Obsessive cause supporter
- fanaticOverly zealous person
- partisanBiased toward one side
- extremistOne holding fringe views
- puristOne demanding strict adherence
hardliner · crusader · evangelist · proselytizer · sectarian · propagandist · demagogue · ideologist
Ruler with total control
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
- despotRuler with absolute power
- autocratSole wielder of power
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
oppressor · domineering · imperious · overbearing · high-handed · iron-fisted · repressive · coercive
Unable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- unbendingRefusing to change position
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
adamant · intransigent · bullheaded · mulish · pigheaded · headstrong · willful · opinionated
Established body of teachings
- creedStatement of belief
- tenetHeld principle or doctrine
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- canonAccepted authoritative works
catechism · theology · precept · infallibility · fundamentalism · literalism · absolutism · inerrancy
zealot
Obsessive cause supporter
purist · hardliner · crusader · evangelist · proselytizer · sectarian · propagandist · demagogue · ideologist · chauvinist
dictator
Ruler with total control
totalitarian · oppressor · domineering · imperious · overbearing · high-handed · iron-fisted · repressive · coercive · commanding
inflexible
Unable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- unbendingRefusing to change position
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
obstinate · adamant · intransigent · bullheaded · mulish · pigheaded · headstrong · willful · opinionated · immovable
doctrine
Established body of teachings
canon · catechism · theology · precept · infallibility · fundamentalism · literalism · absolutism · inerrancy · gospel
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- fanaticismfanaticism, zealotry, zealot, fanatic, extremism
- rigid thinkersfundamentalist, absolutist, doctrinaire
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- bigotsbigot, bigots, racist, racists, sexist
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
dogmatistfreethinker
Rejects doctrine for reason
liberal · free spirit · independent thinker · latitudinarian · pragmatist
dogmatistskeptic
One who doubts claims
doubter · agnostic · questioner · inquirer · critical thinker
dogmatistlatitudinarian
One accepting doctrinal diversity
nonsectarian · ecumenist · atheist · secularist · universalist
- dogmatic beliefAssertion accepted as absolute truth
dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatize, undogmatic, dogmatically, dogmatists