doctrinaire

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. (historical) In France, in 1815–30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

Adj

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

Concepts

doctrinaire

dogmatiste

Synonymes

pedant

speculative

dogmatist

theoretical

notional

opinionated

opinionative

pragmatic

pragmatical

pure

theoretic

theoretician

theorist

theorizer

unrealistic

theoriser

abstruse

theory-based

academic

doctrinal

dogmatic

mathematical

Traductions

δογματικός

kuramsal

doctrinario

doktrinär

Doktrinär

θεωρητικός

dottrinari

leer

leerstelling

doctrinair

leerstellig

kurama

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine + -aire.