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DOGMATIC

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Main Entry: dogmatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dictatorial, opinionated

Synonyms:

arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded, categorical, cocksure, confident, definite, despotic, determined, dictative, doctrinaire, domineering, downright, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical, fascistic, formal, high and mighty, imperious, intolerant, magisterial, narrow-minded, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, overbearing, peremptory, pigheaded, prejudiced, stiff-necked, stubborn, tenacious, tyrannical, unequivocal, wrong-headed

Antonyms:

amenable, doubting, flexible, indecisive, manageable, obedient, questioning, skeptical, submissive
Main Entry: dogmatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: based on absolute truth

Synonyms:

a priori, as a matter of course, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, axiomatic, by fiat, by natural law, by nature, canonical, categorical, deducible, deductive, derivable, doctrinaire, doctrinal, eternal, excathedra, formal, imperative, inevitable, on faith, oracular, orthodox, peremptory, positive, pragmatic, prophetic, reasoned, systematic, theoretical, unchangeable, unerring, unqualified

Antonyms:

ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, indecisive, not positive, uncertain, vacillating
Main Entry: arbitrary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dictatorial

Synonyms:

absolute, autocratic, bossy, despotic, dogmatic, domineering, downright, flat out, high-handed, imperious, magisterial, monocratic, no ifs ands or buts, no joke, overbearing, peremptory, straight out, summary, tyrannical, tyrannous

Antonyms:

democratic
Main Entry: assertive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive

Synonyms:

absolute, assured, certain, confident, decided, decisive, demanding, dogmatic, domineering, emphatic, firm, forceful, forward, insistent, militant, overbearing, positive, pushy, self-assured, self-confident, strong-willed, sure

Antonyms:

diffident, quiet, shy, unconfident
Main Entry: authoritarian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering

Synonyms:

absolute, authoritative, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, dogmatic, harsh, imperious, magisterial, rigid, severe, strict, totalitarian, tyrannical, unyielding
Notes: authoritarian is tyrannical while authoritative commands respect

Antonyms:

democratic, liberal
Main Entry: authoritative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering

Synonyms:

assertive, authoritarian, autocratic, commanding, confident, decisive, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dominating, imperative, imperious, imposing, masterly, officious, peremptory, self-assured

Antonyms:

democratic
Main Entry: bigoted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intolerant, prejudiced

Synonyms:

biased, chauvinistic, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, warped

Antonyms:

broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms:

bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Antonyms:

different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique
Main Entry: deducible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: understandable

Synonyms:

a priori, consequent, deductive, derivable, dogmatic, following, inferable, inferential, provable, reasoned, traceable
Main Entry: derivable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deducible

Synonyms:

a priori, attributable, available, determinable, dogmatic, extractable, inferable, likely, obtainable, reasoned, resultant, traceable

Antonyms:

inconcludable, underivable
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