DOCTRINAIRES Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

doctrinaires

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Noun

Are there moments that will make architectural dogmatists cringe?

— Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025

Definition of dogmatists

Noun

Brainstorm Tech International will convene CEOs and founders, technologists and investors, thinkers and doers to tackle the challenge of turning technological promise into lasting business and societal value.

— Alex Capri, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Management thinkers such as Peter Drucker reinforced this, defining a business's core purpose as creating customers.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of thinkers

Noun

While there are certainly some wood purists out there, Molnar isn’t one of them.

— Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2026
Yet, trapped within the GOP apparatus, his baseline scenario has always been a predictable squeeze in the primary, caught between conservative purists who view him as too centrist and partisan Democrats who hold the financial high ground.

— Dain Fitzgerald, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of purists

Noun

Samberg was among the first to call out the inevitable crowd of bigots and MAGA-enthusiasts that would wail and scream.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 May 2026
And she’s proved that even people who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.

— Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025

Definition of bigots

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The rise of the grammar sticklers Many of today’s ideas about what constitutes correct English are based on a singular – often mistaken – 19th-century view of the forces that govern our language.

— Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
Yes, some sticklers would insist that greatly should never stand between to and excel.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of sticklers

Noun

These concerns first surfaced in 2023 when nationalists, traders, and local activists banded together under the banner of the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee, commonly known as JAAC, to pressure Islamabad for fairer treatment.

— Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2026
The nationalists were members of the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787 to draft the successor to the articles, the United States Constitution.

— Donovan Fifield, Fortune, 19 July 2026

Definition of nationalists

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