DOGMATIST Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

dogmatist

noun

ˈdȯg-mə-tist

Definition of dogmatist

as in partisan

one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices a dogmatist as far as economics are concerned, he's an unquestioning supporter of the supply-side theory

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Recent Examples of dogmatist Are there moments that will make architectural dogmatists cringe? — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025 Although not a dogmatist, Xi cares deeply about ideology and has even blamed the collapse of the Soviet Union in part on Moscow’s failure to ensure that people took Marxism-Leninism seriously. — Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024 While seeing themselves as the forces of enlightenment, these folks who use the prince of darkness as their mascot are really intolerant dogmatists. — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024 But even at its height, this view only gained currency among a very small cohort of sectarian dogmatists. — Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019

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Exhibited for the first time outside of Sarajevo, the churning Socialist Realist homage invokes Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People in figuring partisans heroically overcoming their would-be Nazi aggressors.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Definition of partisan

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For more than 40 years, the festival that began in 1979 drew an attendance of around 100,000 every year, with foodies, garlic fanatics and famous chefs coming from around the world.

— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Because movies like both Rise and this new one are what make discerning horror fanatics cynical and ruin a franchise’s good name.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2026

Definition of fanatic

Noun

The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.

— Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.

— Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023

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