Usually means: Rigidly devoted to a doctrine.
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  1. doctrinaire: Merriam-Webster
  2. doctrinaire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doctrinaire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doctrinaire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doctrinaire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doctrinaire, doctrinaire: Wordnik
  7. doctrinaire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doctrinaire: Wiktionary
  9. doctrinaire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doctrinaire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doctrinaire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Doctrinaire, doctrinaire: Dictionary.com
  13. Doctrinaire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Doctrinaire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. doctrinaire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. doctrinaire: Rhymezone
  17. Doctrinaire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. doctrinaire: FreeDictionary.org
  19. doctrinaire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. doctrinaire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. doctrinaire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. doctrinaire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (doctrinaire)

▸ noun:  A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
▸ noun:  (historical) In France, in 1815–30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.
▸ adjective:  Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

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dogmatist, instructive, informative, doctrinarian, doctrinalist, true believer, intransigentist, dogmatician, pissant, stickler, more...

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pragmatic, flexible, open-minded, adaptable

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Marxist, feminist, libertarian, conservative, socialist, anarchist, capitalist, nationalist, more...

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less, more, mere, rigid, non, political, pure, narrow, dogmatic, radical, fanatical

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Similar:
dogmatist, instructive, informative, doctrinarian, doctrinalist, true believer, intransigentist, dogmatician, pissant, stickler, more...

Opposite:
pragmatic, flexible, open-minded, adaptable

Types:
Marxist, feminist, libertarian, conservative, socialist, anarchist, capitalist, nationalist, more...

Adjectives:
less, more, mere, rigid, non, political, pure, narrow, dogmatic, radical, fanatical

Colors:
    maroon,     charcoal,     burgundy,     olive,     taupe, more...



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