doctrinaire
[dok-truh-nair]
noun
a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
adjective
dogmatic about others' acceptance of one's ideas; fanatical: a doctrinaire preacher.
merely theoretical; impractical.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a doctrinaire.
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Related Words for doctrinaire
authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, speculative, stubbornExamples from the Web for doctrinaire
Contemporary Examples of doctrinaire
Bachmann is so doctrinaire she seems unlikely to be a serious contender in the general election.
In this selective narrative, the only path to truth is doctrinaire conservatism.
Hatch pushed for justices from the “mainstream” rather than “doctrinaire liberals.”
Historical Examples of doctrinaire
It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.
Erasmus and the Age of ReformationJohan Huizinga
It is the hideous figure of the doctrinaire which Erasmus is thinking of.
Erasmus and the Age of ReformationJohan Huizinga
To these, as a "forward" party, the doctrinaire theorists have allied themselves.
The New SocietyWalther Rathenau
If his mind did not naturally work that way he would not be a Doctrinaire.
By the Christmas FireSamuel McChord Crothers
The Doctrinaire can never realize the fatal nature of the "too-much."
By the Christmas FireSamuel McChord Crothers
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