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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Sabbatarian, a priori, antiblack, arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, assured, authoritarian, authoritative, balking, balky, believing, biased, bigoted, blind, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, canonical, case-hardened, categorical, certain, chauvinistic, colored, conceited, confessional, confident, convinced, creedal, creedbound, deaf, deducible, derivable, devout, dictatorial, doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatizing, domineering, doubtless, emphatic, evangelical, faithful, fanatic, fideistic, fundamentalist, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, hyperorthodox, imperious, impressed with, influenced, insistent, interested, intolerant, jaundiced, know-nothing, literalist, literalistic, magisterial, mulish, nonobjective, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, overbearing, overzealous, partial, partisan, peremptory, persevering, persuaded, pertinacious, pietistic, pigheaded, pious, pistic, pontifical, positive, positivistic, precisianist, precisianistic, prejudiced, prepossessed, pronunciative, purist, puristic, puritanical, pushy, racist, reasoned, restive, satisfied, secure, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, set, sexist, sold on, staunch, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, superpatriotic, sure, swayed, tenacious, twisted, ultranationalist, uncooperative, under the impression, undetached, undispassionate, undoubtful, undoubting, unpersuadable, unregenerate, warped, willful, xenophobic

Dictionary Results for dogmatic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dogmatic
    adj 1: characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable
           principles [syn: dogmatic, dogmatical]
    2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code
       of beliefs accepted as authoritative
    3: relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), n.
   One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general
   principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. dogmatic

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), dogmatical
\dog*mat`ic*al\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr.
   dogmatiko`s, fr. do`gma: cf. F. dogmatique.]
   1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized
      doctrine or tenet.
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   2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively;
      positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative;
      overbearing.
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            Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. --
                                                  Spectator.
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            [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they
            were omniscient.                      -- Glanvill.
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   Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

   Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
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