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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French dogmatique, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dogmatic (comparative more dogmatic, superlative most dogmatic)
- (philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience , London: Longmans, Green & Co.:Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
- Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
- Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
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asserting beliefs in an arrogant way
- Albanian: dogmatik (sq)
- Arabic: عَقَائِدِي (ʕaqāʔidī)
- Armenian: դոգմատիկ (hy) (dogmatik), վարդապետական (hy) (vardapetakan)
- Azerbaijani: doqmatik
- Basque: dogmatikoa
- Belarusian: дагматычны (dahmatyčny)
- Bulgarian: догматичен (bg) (dogmatičen)
- Catalan: dogmàtic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 武斷／武断 (zh) (wǔduàn)
- Czech: dogmatický (cs) m
- Danish: dogmatisk
- Dutch: dogmatisch (nl)
- Esperanto: dogma (eo), dogmema
- Estonian: dogmaatiline
- Finnish: dogmaattinen (fi), joustamaton (fi)
- French: dogmatique (fr)
- Galician: dogmático (gl) m
- Georgian: დოგმატური (dogmaṭuri)
- German: dogmatisch (de)
- Greek: δογματικός (el) (dogmatikós)
- Hebrew: דוגמטי, פסקני
- Hungarian: dogmatikus (hu)
- Indonesian: (please verify) dogmatis (id)?, (please verify) dogmatik (id)?, (please verify) kolot (id)?
- Irish: dogmach, dogmatach, diongbháilte, ceanndána
- Italian: dogmatico (it) m
- Japanese: 独断的 (doku-dan-teki)
- Korean: 독단적인 (dokdanjeogin)
- Latin: dogmaticus m
- Latvian: dogmatisks m
- Lithuanian: dogmatiškas m
- Macedonian: догматски (dogmatski)
- Manx: bun-chredjuagh
- Maori: kakī mārō
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dogmatisk (no)
- Nynorsk: dogmatisk
- Persian: جزمی (fa) (jizmî)
- Polish: dogmatyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: dogmático (pt)
- Romanian: dogmatic (ro)
- Russian: догмати́ческий (ru) (dogmatíčeskij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: догматски
- Roman: dogmatski (sh)
- Slovak: dogmatický
- Slovene: dogmatičen
- Spanish: dogmático (es)
- Swedish: dogmatisk (sv)
- Thai: หัวรั้น (hǔua-rán)
- Turkish: dogmatik (tr), öğretisel
- Ukrainian: догмати́чний (dohmatýčnyj)
- Vietnamese: giáo điều (vi)
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Noun
dogmatic (plural dogmatics)
- One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dogmatique and Latin dogmaticus. Equivalent to dogmă + -atic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dogmatic m or n (feminine singular dogmatică, masculine plural dogmatici, feminine and neuter plural dogmatice)
- dogmatic
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