dogmatizing
Declaring absolute truths
Dogmatizing is asserting opinions as if they were established facts, speaking with unwarranted certainty on matters that remain open to debate.
Someone who dogmatizes lectures rather than discusses, treating their views as beyond question: He spent the evening dogmatizing about politics while everyone else tried to change the subject.
Announcing something formally
- declaringFormally stating something
- insistingFirmly maintaining a position
- affirmingDeclaring something true
- pronouncingUttering with voice
stating · maintaining · contending · postulating · advocating · preaching · lecturing · pontificating
Established body of teachings
- creedStatement of belief
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- theologyStudy of the divine
- tenetHeld principle or doctrine
canon · catechism · heresy · sectarian · apostasy · schism · exegesis · ecclesiastical
Unable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- intransigentRefusing to compromise
unbending · uncompromising · adamant · closed-minded · narrow-minded · hidebound · entrenched · immovable
Unfairly favoring one side
- judgmentalInclined to criticize others
- self-righteousSmugly certain of correctness
- preachyExcessively moralizing in tone
- didacticIntended to instruct
pedantic · self-assured · overconfident · presumptuous · imperious · arrogant · condescending · patronizing
proclaiming
Announcing something formally
- declaringFormally stating something
- insistingFirmly maintaining a position
- affirmingDeclaring something true
pronouncing · stating · maintaining · contending · postulating · advocating · preaching · lecturing · pontificating · sermonizing
doctrine
Established body of teachings
tenet · canon · catechism · heresy · sectarian · apostasy · schism · exegesis · ecclesiastical · scriptural
rigid
Unable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- stubbornRefusing to change course
intransigent · unbending · uncompromising · adamant · closed-minded · narrow-minded · hidebound · entrenched · immovable · pigheaded
biased
Unfairly favoring one side
- judgmentalInclined to criticize others
- self-righteousSmugly certain of correctness
- preachyExcessively moralizing in tone
didactic · pedantic · self-assured · overconfident · presumptuous · imperious · arrogant · condescending · patronizing · superior
dogmatizingopen-minded
Receptive to different ideas
questioning · doubting · reconsidering · equivocating · vacillating
dogmatizinginquiring
Seeking information actively
investigating · hypothesizing · reasoning · deliberating · questioning assumptions
dogmatizingqualifying
Meeting required criteria
hedging · speculating · suggesting · dialoguing · musing
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