Doctrinaire

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Doctrinaire \Doc`tri*naire"\, n. [F. See {Doctrine}.]
     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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In french history, the Doctrinaires were a
           constitutionalist party which originated after the
           restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the
           interests of liberalism and progress. After the
           Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power,
           they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with
           the republicans and radicals. --Am. Cyc.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  doctrinaire
       adj : stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for
             practicality or suitability
       n : a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions [syn: {dogmatist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "doctrinaire":
     antiblack, armchair authority, authoritarian, authoritative,
     biased, bigot, bigoted, bullheaded, chauvinist, chauvinistic,
     colored, conceited, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatic, dogmatist,
     dogmatizer, dogmatizing, fanatic, hypothesist, hypothesizer,
     illiberal, infallibilist, influenced, interested, intolerant,
     jaundiced, jingo, know-nothing, magisterial, male chauvinist,
     mulish, nonobjective, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated,
     opinionative, opinioned, opinionist, oracular, partial, partisan,
     peremptory, pertinacious, pig, pigheaded, pontifical, positive,
     positivist, positivistic, prejudiced, prepossessed, pronunciative,
     racist, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sexist, speculator,
     stiff-necked, stubborn, superpatriot, superpatriotic, swayed,
     theoretic, theoretician, theorist, theorizer, twisted,
     ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, warped,
     xenophobic