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Definition of "dogmatist" [dog•ma•tist]

  • An arrogantly assertive person. (noun)
  • One who expresses or sets forth dogma. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dogmatist" in a sentence
  • "There is, I believe, a widespread loathing for the difficulties of much modernist and postmodernist writing, but out of fear of being called a dogmatist or worse, the loathing is concealed."
  • "The dogmatist is the only one who claims to possess absolute certainty."
  • "If all the clowns who excoriate Keynes just because some ignorant dogmatist told them to, would actually go read the General Theory (which is exceptionally lucidly written), perhaps they might begin to understand why."