dogmatist
person who states opinions as unquestionable truth
Roots
Other words with the dogm root
Other words with the dox root
- dogma: a fixed doctrine or belief
- dogmatic: asserting opinions as unquestionable truth
- dogmatism: rigid attachment to doctrine or opinion
- heterodox: departing from accepted belief or doctrine
- heterodoxy: departure from accepted belief or doctrine
- orthodox: conforming to accepted or traditional belief
- orthodoxy: accepted or traditional belief system
A dogmatist turns a view into doctrine and then guards the door.
The panel needed a listener, not another dogmatist certain before the evidence arrived.
A dogmatist is not just confident. The problem is closure: the belief has become untouchable, and conversation has to kneel before it.