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Definition of doctrinaire in English: doctrinaireadjective ˌdɒktrɪˈnɛːˌdɑktrəˈnɛr Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations. 教条的;脱离实际的 the administration's doctrinaire economic policy Example sentencesExamples - At this point we must consider a doctrinaire objection.
- It may have been written by a wildly doctrinaire author, whose ideas would be revealed as utterly left-field if placed in a context.
- The markets don't believe it is credible for countries to immolate their economies simply to meet the pact's doctrinaire terms.
- Skepticism, rather than doctrinaire conviction, provides the only appropriate safeguard against human frailty and desire.
- He complains that the phrase is ‘too doctrinaire.’
- I don't think he is doctrinaire or ideological in any sense.
- He had been a Marxist since his early 20s, but his was by no means a rigid, doctrinaire approach.
- Some commentaries are doctrinaire; others are struggling to make sense of what happened and how the case informs theorizing about family therapy.
- Yet doctrinaire democrats don't seem to give a tinker's toss about placing limits on what a legislature (local or global) can divvy or decide.
- They are not concerned with complicated doctrinaire considerations, but with a sure instinct are demanding fundamental solutions.
- Yet, the argument does not come across as ideologically motivated or doctrinaire.
- In those days of doctrinaire communism, vanity was regarded as a form of capitalist decadence.
- However, he is neither doctrinaire nor derisive toward his opponents.
- What advice do you have for conservative students taking non-science classes taught by doctrinaire liberals?
- They are also two of the body's most doctrinaire conservatives.
- I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
- In the 1950's and 1960's, Lincoln became increasingly rigid and doctrinaire, hostile to innovation and change, though no less influential.
- What impressed me most was his refusal to be doctrinaire, his openness to sharp ideas no matter where on the political spectrum they came from.
- Jones was often mistaken for a socialist, although the doctrinaire socialists derided him for his belief in Christian brotherhood and opposition to class warfare.
- He was very much a free thinker, who railed against any sort of doctrinaire approach to politics and problem solving.
Synonyms dogmatic, rigid, inflexible, uncompromising, unyielding, holding fixed views, adamant, insistent, pontifical authoritarian, domineering, opinionated, intolerant, biased, prejudiced, fanatical, zealous, extreme British informal swivel-eyed
noun ˌdɒktrɪˈnɛːˌdɑktrəˈnɛr A doctrinaire person. Example sentencesExamples - Their decision to marry in a low-key civil ceremony means that they will offend no one save the doctrinaires.
- It's the opponents of Emmanuel College and other faith schools who are the real doctrinaires.
- There were few doctrinaires in Parliament, and the reforming zeal of the Whigs rapidly waned.
- His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of the Old South.’
- ‘I was a social reformer and doctrinaire first, last, and all the time,’ he wrote.
- The admission that past Americans harbored ambivalent and confusing attitudes about nature seems too untidy for the doctrinaire.
- Next time you hear a Monroe doctrinaire utter that the brand belongs to the consumer, just take the aphorism for what it is - just another delusion of branders.
- Behind the facade of ‘society,’ there is always a group of power-hungry doctrinaires and exploiters, ready to take your money and to order your actions and your life.
- The remedies suggested by the unorthodox doctrinaires are futile.
- It seems when push comes to shove, the doctrinaire retreat.
- This was a monumental mistake, the kind only a doctrinaire can make.
- First I stopped believing my teachers, then - all manner of ideologists and doctrinaires.
- Yet these are the choices offered by our influential doctrinaires.
- Perception requires only that one exercise the will to perceive, and it's a tool as available to the doctrinaire, the ignorant, and the gullible as it is to the skeptical and concerned.
- It may be that it represents the colonisation of Washington power by a group of quasi-revolutionary doctrinaires.
- He was attending the annual summer school of the party, a force compounded of anti-Stalinist Marxists and small, sandalled groups of alternative doctrinaires.
Synonyms pedant, precisionist, perfectionist, formalist, literalist, stickler, traditionalist, doctrinaire, quibbler, hair-splitter, dogmatist, casuist, sophist, fault-finder, caviller, carper, pettifogger
Derivativesnoun This unyielding doctrinairism necessarily brought about the decline of liberalism. Example sentencesExamples - His ‘rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘carping doctrinairism’ have been repeatedly attacked.
- Rationalism and doctrinairism are the diseases of our time; they pretend to have all the answers.
- He continued to express his resistance to what he saw as the doctrinairism in communist literary circles in various articles.
- We shall see later that this doctrinairism was by no means Platonic: it fulfilled a very real political function, although with blindfolded eyes.
OriginEarly 19th century: from French, from doctrine (see doctrine). Rhymesaffair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah Definition of doctrinaire in US English: doctrinaireadjectiveˌdäktrəˈnerˌdɑktrəˈnɛr Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations. 教条的;脱离实际的 a doctrinaire conservative Example sentencesExamples - I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
- In those days of doctrinaire communism, vanity was regarded as a form of capitalist decadence.
- Jones was often mistaken for a socialist, although the doctrinaire socialists derided him for his belief in Christian brotherhood and opposition to class warfare.
- Some commentaries are doctrinaire; others are struggling to make sense of what happened and how the case informs theorizing about family therapy.
- At this point we must consider a doctrinaire objection.
- They are not concerned with complicated doctrinaire considerations, but with a sure instinct are demanding fundamental solutions.
- It may have been written by a wildly doctrinaire author, whose ideas would be revealed as utterly left-field if placed in a context.
- What impressed me most was his refusal to be doctrinaire, his openness to sharp ideas no matter where on the political spectrum they came from.
- He had been a Marxist since his early 20s, but his was by no means a rigid, doctrinaire approach.
- The markets don't believe it is credible for countries to immolate their economies simply to meet the pact's doctrinaire terms.
- He was very much a free thinker, who railed against any sort of doctrinaire approach to politics and problem solving.
- In the 1950's and 1960's, Lincoln became increasingly rigid and doctrinaire, hostile to innovation and change, though no less influential.
- They are also two of the body's most doctrinaire conservatives.
- I don't think he is doctrinaire or ideological in any sense.
- Yet, the argument does not come across as ideologically motivated or doctrinaire.
- He complains that the phrase is ‘too doctrinaire.’
- However, he is neither doctrinaire nor derisive toward his opponents.
- What advice do you have for conservative students taking non-science classes taught by doctrinaire liberals?
- Skepticism, rather than doctrinaire conviction, provides the only appropriate safeguard against human frailty and desire.
- Yet doctrinaire democrats don't seem to give a tinker's toss about placing limits on what a legislature (local or global) can divvy or decide.
Synonyms dogmatic, rigid, inflexible, uncompromising, unyielding, holding fixed views, adamant, insistent, pontifical
nounˌdäktrəˈnerˌdɑktrəˈnɛr A person who seeks to impose a doctrine without regard to practical considerations. 教条的;脱离实际的 Example sentencesExamples - The remedies suggested by the unorthodox doctrinaires are futile.
- Perception requires only that one exercise the will to perceive, and it's a tool as available to the doctrinaire, the ignorant, and the gullible as it is to the skeptical and concerned.
- There were few doctrinaires in Parliament, and the reforming zeal of the Whigs rapidly waned.
- First I stopped believing my teachers, then - all manner of ideologists and doctrinaires.
- It's the opponents of Emmanuel College and other faith schools who are the real doctrinaires.
- ‘I was a social reformer and doctrinaire first, last, and all the time,’ he wrote.
- It may be that it represents the colonisation of Washington power by a group of quasi-revolutionary doctrinaires.
- Their decision to marry in a low-key civil ceremony means that they will offend no one save the doctrinaires.
- He was attending the annual summer school of the party, a force compounded of anti-Stalinist Marxists and small, sandalled groups of alternative doctrinaires.
- The admission that past Americans harbored ambivalent and confusing attitudes about nature seems too untidy for the doctrinaire.
- This was a monumental mistake, the kind only a doctrinaire can make.
- Behind the facade of ‘society,’ there is always a group of power-hungry doctrinaires and exploiters, ready to take your money and to order your actions and your life.
- His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of the Old South.’
- It seems when push comes to shove, the doctrinaire retreat.
- Next time you hear a Monroe doctrinaire utter that the brand belongs to the consumer, just take the aphorism for what it is - just another delusion of branders.
- Yet these are the choices offered by our influential doctrinaires.
Synonyms pedant, precisionist, perfectionist, formalist, literalist, stickler, traditionalist, doctrinaire, quibbler, hair-splitter, dogmatist, casuist, sophist, fault-finder, caviller, carper, pettifogger
OriginEarly 19th century: from French, from doctrine (see doctrine). |