doctrinaire
doctrinaire is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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; as, doctrinaire notions. Note: In french history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals. Am. Cyc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- academician
- academist
- admirable
- and
- antiquarian
- antiquary
- archaeologist
- bibliomaniac
- bibliophile
- bigwig
- bluestocking
- blusterer
- boaster
- bookworm
- braggart
- brawler
- bulldozer
- bully
- clerk
- connoisseur
- dare-devil
- desperado
- doctor
- dogmatist
- don
- drawcansir
- eater
- education
- fanfaron
- feet
- fellow
- fire
- fop
- fury
- genius
- glossographer
- good
- gownsman
- graduate
- grammarian
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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