Definition of Doctrinaire

1. Noun. A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions.

Exact synonyms: Dogmatist
Generic synonyms: Drumbeater, Partisan, Zealot
Derivative terms: Dogmatise, Dogmatise, Dogmatism, Dogmatize, Dogmatize

2. Adjective. Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability.

Definition of Doctrinaire

1. n. One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

Definition of Doctrinaire

1. Noun. A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility. ¹

2. Adjective. stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doctrinaire

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doctrinaire

doctorishness
doctorless
doctorlike
doctorly
doctors
doctors make the worst patients
doctorship
doctorships
doctorspeak
doctour
doctours
doctourship
doctress
doctresses
doctrinable
doctrinaire (current term)
doctrinaires
doctrinairism
doctrinairisms
doctrinal
doctrinalism
doctrinalisms
doctrinally
doctrinals
doctrinarian
doctrinarianism
doctrinarianisms
doctrinarians
doctrination
doctrine

Literary usage of Doctrinaire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism by Paul Frederick Brissenden (1919)
"The line of cleavage then was between the Socialist party and the Socialist Labor party, that is, between reformist and doctrinaire elements, ..."

2. Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland by Robert Flint (1894)
"... philosophy had its counterpart, or rather complement, in doctrinaire politics. ... and doctrinaire politics which flourished in France forty years ago, ..."

3. The Philosophy of History in France and Germany by Robert Flint (1874)
"THE eclectic philosophy had its counterpart, or rather complement, in doctrinaire politics. What the one was in speculation, the other was in action. ..."

4. A History of Political Theories from Rousseau to Spencer by William Archibald Dunning (1920)
"Guizot, the doctrinaire This admirable representative of French culture in the first half of the nineteenth century was more distinguished in historical ..."

5. Labor and the Common Welfare by Samuel Gompers (1919)
"... "FRIENDS OF LABOR," PHILANTHROPIC AND doctrinaire We have often a very grave complaint to make against many of our charitably inclined. ..."

6. The Monarchy of the Middle Classes: France, Social, Literary, Political by Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer (1836)
"... Royalist—doctrinaire—Artist—Young Doctors, and Philosophers of the hour. Let us see! There has been a conspiracy. Who are at the bar? a cabinet maker, ..."

7. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Robert Hall. Thomas Paine; Common Sense; Rights of Man; Age of Beason. II. William Godwin, the typical doctrinaire; influence; development of sympathy; ..."

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