Dogmatizers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. One who asserts opinions or beliefs in an authoritative manner
2. A person who expresses doctrines or tenets rigidly, often dismissing other viewpoints
3. An individual who promotes strict adherence to a particular set of principles or ideologies without tolerance for deviation

Etymology: Ancient Greek "dogma" originally meant an opinion or decree, something that seemed right to a person or to an assembly. The verb "dogmatizein" was used in the sense of laying down such opinions as authoritative, and the Romans borrowed it as "dogmatizare." English took the verb "dogmatize" from Late Latin "dogmatizare," so the word has been a rigid, authoritative way of speaking from the start, long before it came to carry the sense of arrogance. The English noun "dogmatizer" is simply "dogmatize" with the agent suffix "-er," which English inherited through Middle English from Old French, where it descended from Latin "-arius." The formation is plain and transparent: a dogmatizer is one who dogmatizes, that is, one who states doctrines as settled truth.

Synonyms: authoritarians, doctrinarians, orthodoxists, fundamentalists, rigid thinkers

Antonyms: open-minded, tolerant, flexible, unconventional, independent thinkers