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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, doctrinaire, domineering, downright, emphatic, fanatical, formal, high and mighty*, imperious, intolerant, magisterial, narrow-minded, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, overbearing, peremptory, pigheaded*, prejudiced, stubborn, tenacious, tyrannical, unequivocal, dictative, egotistical, fascistic, stiff-necked, wrong-headed |
| Antonyms: | amenable, doubting, flexible, indecisive, manageable, obedient, questioning, skeptical, submissive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dogmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | based on absolute truth |
| Synonyms: | a priori, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, axiomatic, canonical, categorical, deducible, derivable, doctrinaire, eternal, formal, imperative, inevitable, oracular, orthodox, peremptory, positive, pragmatic, prophetic, systematic, theoretical, unchangeable, unerring, unqualified, as a matter of course, by fiat, by natural law, by nature, deductive, doctrinal, excathedra, on faith, reasoned |
| Antonyms: | ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indecisive, uncertain, vacillating, fluctuating, not positive |
| 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: | bigoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, chauvinistic, warped |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | deducible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | a priori, consequent, derivable, dogmatic, following, inferential, provable, traceable, deductive, inferable, reasoned |
| Main Entry: | derivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deducible |
| Synonyms: | a priori, available, determinable, dogmatic, likely, obtainable, traceable, attributable, extractable, inferable, reasoned, resultant |
| Antonyms: | inconcludable, underivable |
| Main Entry: | dictatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tyrannical, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, autocratic, bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm, haughty, imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unlimited, unrestricted, crack-the-whip, dictative, iron-handed, throwing weight around |
| Antonyms: | democratic, docile, passive |
| Main Entry: | emphatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insistent, unequivocal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, assertive, assured, categorical, certain, cogent, confident, decided, definite, definitive, determined, direct, distinct, dogmatic, dynamic, earnest, energetic, explicit, express, flat, forceful, forcible, important, impressive, marked, momentous, pointed, positive, potent, powerful, pronounced, significant, sober, solemn, striking, strong, sure, telling, trenchant, unmistakable, vigorous, accented, for a face, no mistake, resounding, stressed |
| Antonyms: | equivocal, indefinite, indistinct, insignificant, reserved, understated, unpronounced |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, narrow-minded, obsessed, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous, bugged, high on, monomaniacal, nuts for, obsessive, turned on |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intolerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impatient, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | antipathetic, averse, biased, bigoted, communist, conservative, contemptuous, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, fanatical, fractious, hateful, illiberal, indignant, inflexible, irate, irritable, jaundiced, narrow, narrow-minded, obdurate, one-sided, racist, small-minded*, snappy, stuffy, uncharitable, unfair, unsympathetic, unwilling, upset, waspish, chauvinistic, individualistic, outraged, racialist, short-fuse, tilted, unforbearing, unindulgent, worked-up, xenophobic |
| Antonyms: | fair, impartial, patient, tolerant, unprejudiced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obstinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn, determined |
| Synonyms: | adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, convinced, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish*, obdurate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, restive, steadfast, tenacious, unalterable, unflinching, unmanageable, unyielding, willful, dead set on, locked in, opinionative, resolved, self-willed, strong-minded |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, amenable, cooperative, flexible, helpful, submissive, willing, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opinionated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing very strongly and conveying it |
| Synonyms: | adamant, arbitrary, assertive, biased, bigoted, bossy, bullheaded*, cocksure*, cocky*, conceited, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, hard-line*, high-handed, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, oracular, overbearing, pigheaded*, positive, pragmatic, prejudiced, self-assertive, single-minded, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding, locked in, pragmatical, set in stone, set-on, tilted, weighted |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, open-minded, compromising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, apocalyptic, arcane, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, dogmatic, foreboding, imperious, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portentous, positive, prescient, sage, secret, significant, vague, venerable, wise, Delphian, anticipating, auguring, discovering, divining, divulging, fatidic, forecasting, foretelling, interpretive, mantic, portending, predicting, presaging, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sibylline, soothsaying, vatic |
| Main Entry: | overbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, domineering |
| Synonyms: | autocratic, bossy, cavalier, cocky*, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, high-handed*, imperative, imperial, imperious, insolent, magisterial, officious, oppressive, overweening, paramount, peremptory, predominant, preponderant, prevalent, proud, regnant, snotty*, sovereign, stuffy, supercilious, superior, tyrannical, uppity*, ascendant, high-and-mighty*, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | kind, modest, nice, unassertive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedagogic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, dogmatic, instructive, learned, profound, scholastic, teaching, professorial |
| Main Entry: | peremptory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overbearing, authoritative |
| Synonyms: | absolute, arbitrary, assertive, autocratic, binding, bossy, categorical, certain, commanding, compelling, decided, decisive, dictatorial, dogmatic, domineering, final, finished, firm, fixed, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, incontrovertible, intolerant, irrefutable, magisterial, obligatory, obstinate, positive, rigorous, severe, stringent, tyrannical, uncompromising, undeniable |
| Antonyms: | indulgent, laid-back, lax, lenient, mild, moderate, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | rigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe; exact |
| Synonyms: | accurate, ascetic, austere, bitter, brutal, burdensome, correct, definite, dogmatic, exacting, hard, harsh, inclement, inflexible, intemperate, meticulous, nice, onerous, oppressive, precise, proper, punctilious, right, rigid, rugged, scrupulous, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, uncompromising, ironhanded, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | easy, lax, lenient, loose, mild, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, fanatic, fanatical, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, skeptical, splinter, cliquish, factional, hidebound, schismatic, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | undisputed/undisputable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | positive, accepted |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, arbitrary, assured, authoritative, certain, conclusive, decided, dogmatic, final, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, recognized, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unequivocal, unerring, admitted, beyond question, incontestable, not disputed, tyrannous, unchallenged, uncontested, unquestioned |
| Antonyms: | disputable, doubtful, dubious, negative, uncertain, unsure, disputed |
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