Definitions for doctrinaire

doctrinaire doc·tri·naire

Spelling: [dok-truh-nair]
IPA: /ˈdɒk trəˈnɛər/

Doctrinaire is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1055 anagrams from letters in doctrinaire (acdeiinorrt).

Definitions for doctrinaire

noun

  1. a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.

adjective

  1. dogmatic about others' acceptance of one's ideas; fanatical:
  2. merely theoretical; impractical.
  3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a doctrinaire.

Origin of doctrinaire

From French, dating back to 1810-20; See origin at doctrine, -aire

Examples for doctrinaire

The original instrument was not only democratic in tone, but doctrinaire.

If his mind did not naturally work that way he would not be a doctrinaire.

Bachmann is so doctrinaire she seems unlikely to be a serious contender in the general election.

It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.

It is the hideous figure of the doctrinaire which Erasmus is thinking of.

In this selective narrative, the only path to truth is doctrinaire conservatism.

To these, as a "forward" party, the doctrinaire theorists have allied themselves.

But Howe was no doctrinaire, bound at all costs to uphold a system.

The doctrinaire can never realize the fatal nature of the "too-much."

Hatch pushed for justices from the “mainstream” rather than “doctrinaire liberals.”

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