[ US /dɑɡˈmætɪk, dɔɡˈmætɪk/ ]
[ UK /dɒɡmˈætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
  2. relating to or involving dogma
    dogmatic writings
  3. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use dogmatic In A Sentence

  • Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
  • He was an undogmatic, unsectarian bridge-builder.
  • I decided eventually that the main criterion as a judge was to be as undogmatic and open-minded as possible. It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs
  • a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
  • Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
  • Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
  • And credit for his undogmatic approach is due in part, he thinks, to his former boss, the trail-blazing Dutch architect and urban planner Rem Koolhaas. Building a Better Future
  • Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy