doctrinaire
a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
dogmatic about others' acceptance of one's ideas; fanatical: a doctrinaire preacher.
merely theoretical; impractical.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a doctrinaire.
Origin of doctrinaire
1Other words for doctrinaire
Opposites for doctrinaire
Other words from doctrinaire
- doc·tri·nair·ism, noun
- non·doc·tri·naire, adjective
- o·ver·doc·tri·naire, adjective
- un·doc·tri·naire, adjective
Words that may be confused with doctrinaire
- doctrinal, doctrinaire
Words Nearby doctrinaire
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How to use doctrinaire in a sentence
Hernández insists Petro will turn Colombia into Venezuela, a country with an economy run into the ground by years of recklessly doctrinaire socialist policies imposed in the name of populist revolution.
Colombians Want Change. They'll Get It No Matter Who Wins the Presidential Election | Ian Bremmer | June 17, 2022 | TimeEven though HBES members were in the avant garde of studying human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, most of them were doctrinaire in their rejection of group selection.
E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way - Issue 112: Inspiration | David Sloan Wilson | January 5, 2022 | NautilusBut he also prides himself on not being doctrinaire in his beliefs.
Bachmann is so doctrinaire she seems unlikely to be a serious contender in the general election.
In this selective narrative, the only path to truth is doctrinaire conservatism.
This was a watershed between doctrinaire aggression and physical aggression.
Governance has even led him to moderate some of his more doctrinaire conservative views, he said.
To these, as a "forward" party, the doctrinaire theorists have allied themselves.
The New Society | Walther RathenauIf his mind did not naturally work that way he would not be a doctrinaire.
By the Christmas Fire | Samuel McChord CrothersThe doctrinaire can never realize the fatal nature of the "too-much."
By the Christmas Fire | Samuel McChord CrothersNone the less, all attempts to win the working men from the doctrinaire Socialists failed.
The strength of the new party was frittered away in doctrinaire factional strife between the single taxers and the socialists.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig Perlman
British Dictionary definitions for doctrinaire
/ (ˌdɒktrɪˈnɛə) /
stubbornly insistent on the observation of the niceties of a theory, esp without regard to practicality, suitability, etc
theoretical; impractical
a person who stubbornly attempts to apply a theory without regard to practical difficulties
Derived forms of doctrinaire
- doctrinairism or doctrinarism, noun
- doctrinarian, noun
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