(disapproving) being certain that your beliefs are right and that others should accept them, without paying attention to evidence or other opinions:
a dogmatic approach / statement * There is a danger of becoming too dogmatic about teaching methods. * He was strident and dogmatic in giving his opinions.
dogmatically adverb:
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions: they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dogmatic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dogmatic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dogmatic is tagged as adjective.
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