Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
  • adjective Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner.
  • adjective Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of a dogma or an authoritatively settled doctrine; pertaining to dogma or authoritative doctrine in general: as, dogmatic theology.
  • Asserting, or disposed to make positive assertions of, opinion, doctrine, or fact without presenting argument or evidence, or in an overbearing and arrogant manner.
  • In the Kantian philosophy, relating to that kind of metaphysics which deduces its doctrines syllogistically, or from the analysis of conceptions, setting out with those which seem perfectly clear and distinct: opposed to critical.
  • noun Same as dogmatics.
  • noun A dogmatist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
  • adjective Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
  • adjective Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
  • adjective Same as Dogmatics.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective philosophy, medicine Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
  • adjective Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
  • adjective Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  • adjective relating to or involving dogma
  • adjective characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin dogmaticus, from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat-, belief; see dogma.]

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From French dogmatique, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός ("didactic"), from δόγμα ("dogma").

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Examples

  • If so, it seems that the term dogmatic has really lost all meaning, and can be applied to anyone who believes that the priciples they live by preclude certain solutions to certain problems.

    It’s made of people. 2007

  • In the stricter sense the term dogmatic fact is confined to books and spoken discourses, and its meaning will be explained by a reference to the condemnation by Innocent X of five propositions taken from the posthumous book of Jansenius, entitled

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Meanwhile, Fay Glinister has made a great article that seeks to smash apart what she identifies as a dogmatic belief by modern historians in Veiled and unveiled: Uncovering Roman influence in Hellenistic Italy 2009.

    Archive 2010-09-01 2010

  • Meanwhile, Fay Glinister has made a great article that seeks to smash apart what she identifies as a dogmatic belief by modern historians in Veiled and unveiled: Uncovering Roman influence in Hellenistic Italy 2009.

    Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato' 2010

  • This pejorative connotation is even stronger with the term dogmatic, used to describe a person of rigid beliefs who is not open to rational argument.

    Bringing the stupid: Joanne (True Blue) edition. CC 2008

  • That, in turn, is accomplished through what he identifies as dogmatic doubt, not the Cartesian doubt that deems everything false so as to find a first indubitable principle, a useless enterprise, according to Thomasius.

    18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant Sassen, Brigitte 2007

  • Kant himself distinguished two types of philosophy, which he called the dogmatic and critical types.

    An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

  • But the key seems to be to know when to say, “No, I am going to disagree on this and this or that and that,” and not get wrapped up in dogmatic debates about The Way.

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  • Your definition of it as dogmatic is the issue, because you have never justified it.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • Your definition of it as dogmatic is the issue, because you have never justified it.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

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  • highly opinionated, not accepting that your belief may not be correct

    Bryan is dogmatic in his belief that the earth is flat, claiming that all pictures of a spherical earth are computer generated.

    October 12, 2016