SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
dogmatic
adjective
Insisting on beliefs as unquestionably true without sufficient openness to challenge.
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Insisting on unquestionable beliefs
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Return to topDogmatic resists reasonable questioning of a belief. Authoritarian and imperious concern demanding obedience or commanding behavior, which need not involve unquestionable beliefs.
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A dogmatic refusal to consider alternatives stalled the discussion.
Another member became dogmatic, insisting that the existing process was unquestionably correct because the group had always used it.
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