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n. A person inflexibly attached to a practice or theory without regard to its practicality.

adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a person inflexibly attached to a practice or theory. See Synonyms at dictatorial.

n. A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.

adj. stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

n. 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.

n. One who theorizes without a sufficient regard to practical considerations; a political theorist; an ideologist; one who undertakes to explain things by one narrow theory or group of theories, leaving out of view all other forces at work.

n. In French history, during the period of the Restoration (1815-30) and later, one of a class of politicians and political philosophers who desired a constitution constructed on historical principles, especially after the analogy of the British constitution.

Characteristic of a doctrinaire or unpractical theorist; merely theoretical; insisting upon the exclusive importance of a one-sided theory.

adj. stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability

n. a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

"The word doctrinaire -- word full of terror to the British mind -- reappeared from time to time between his explosions."

instructive    informative   

partisan    drumbeater    zealot   

document    doctorate    indoctrinate    docent    doctrine    doctrinal    docile    doctor   

Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   

theoretic    twistor    trade-unionist    agrarian    collectivist    treatyite    contrapuntal    uninstructive    long-winded    conspiratory