A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions.

synonym: dogmatist.

Roget 887: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer^†, brawler; fanfaron^†; braggart etc. (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U.S.], hoodlum, hooligan [Slang], larrikin^†, roarer [Slang]; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir^†, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso^†, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos^†; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury, etc. (violent person) 173; rowdy; slang-whanger [Slang], tough [U.S.].    puppy etc. (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox^†, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.    ... show more

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting etc. 884.    charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology etc. (altiloquence) 577.    mannerism, simagree, grimace.    conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.    stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.    affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule [Fr.], bas bleu [Fr.], blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan etc. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre etc. (fop) 854; flatterer etc. 935; coquette, prude, puritan.    ... show more

Roget 492: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman^†, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist^†; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister^†; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer^†; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi^†, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue^†; Mezzofanti^†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.    bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac^†; bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].    learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.    antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.    sage etc. (wise man) 500.    pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr.    Pangloss; pantologist^†, criminologist.    schoolboy etc. (learner) 541.    ... show more

Roget 474: certainty; necessity etc. 601; certitude, surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness etc. adj.; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness^†.    gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata [Lat.], ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist^†, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit [Lat.].    fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 481: misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception etc. (error) 495; hasty conclusion.    [causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication^†, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion^†, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension^†, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_ee fixe; mentis gratissimus error [Lat.]; fool's paradise.    [causes of misjudgment. 2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige.    [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.    [causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606; odium theologicum [Lat.]; pedantry; hypercriticism.    doctrinaire etc. (positive) 474.    [causes of misjudgment. 5] overestimation etc. 482; underestimation etc. 483.    [causes of misjudgment. 6] ignorance etc. 491.    erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error) 495.    ... show more

Dutch: dogmaticus
Polish: dogmatyk, doktryner, sekciarz

Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability.