dogmatist

[dawg-muh-tist, dog-]

noun

1. a person who asserts their opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.

2. a person who lays down dogmas; one who prescribes doctrines.

dogmatist

/ ˈdɒɡmətɪst /

noun

1. a dogmatic person

2. a person who formulates dogmas

Other Word Forms

• antidogmatist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dogmatist¹

First recorded in 1535–45; from Medieval Latin dogmatista, equivalent to dogmat(izāre) “to dogmatize ” + -ista -ist

Example Sentences

But opponents criticize her as a dogmatist and a wooden public speaker, and note that she has not always been a true-blue Tory.

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Bielsa’s reputation as a dogmatist has created a misleading impression of him.

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Which is not to say that Davies is a free-market dogmatist.

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As President Barack Obama, not known as a conservative dogmatist, put it in 2015, the “free market is the greatest producer of wealth in history — it has lifted billions of people out of poverty.”

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I once asked Will Chappell, who has known the Mortons for more than a decade, whether they were actual sovereign dogmatists.

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Related Words

• bigot 
• partisan