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Definition: Doctrinaire |
DoctrinaireAdjective1. Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability. Noun1. An stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doctrinaire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Doctrinaire \Doc`tri*naire"\, noun. [French expression See Doctrine.]. (references) |
Synonym: DoctrinaireSynonym: dogmatist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan. |
Blusterer | Puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx;puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock. |
Certainty | Gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata, ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit. |
Misjudgment | Doctrinaire; (positive). |
Scholar | Pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist, criminologist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Doctrinaire |
| English words defined with "doctrinaire": Doctrinarian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Doctrinaire" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (doctrinaire, doctrinarian). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Melbourne | A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Doctrinaire" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doctrinaire" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "doctrinaire": non-doctrinaire. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doctrinaire | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "doctrinaire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | teoricien dogmatik. (various references) | |
Arabic | النظري, اللاعملي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тесногръд (illiberal, insular, narrow, narrow minded, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, single track, straitlaced, stuffy), теоретичен (abstract, moot, parlor, parlour, platonic, pure, theoretic, theoretical), теоретик (egghead, notionalist, theoretician, theorist), доктринерски (dogmatic), доктринер (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
Czech | doktrinářský, dogmatický (dogmatic, opinionated), teoretický (academic, doctrinarian, scholarly, theoretic, theoretical). (various references) | |
Farsi | کسیکه نظرخودرابدون توجه اجراکند, اصولی (Material). (various references) | |
French | doctrinaire (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
German | doktrinär (doctrinal). (various references) | |
Greek | θεωρητικόσ (notional, speculative, theoretical, theoretician, theorist), δογματικόσ (doctrinal, dogmatic, opinionated, opinionative, pragmatic, pragmatical). (various references) | |
Hungarian | doktriner (doctrinarian, pedant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | doktriner, bersifat teoritis. (various references) | |
Italian | dottrinario. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空論家 (a doctrinaire). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くうろ"か (a doctrinaire). (various references) | |
Manx | aaraueagh (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | octrinaireday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | doutrinário, visionário (air-monger, castle-builder, doctrinarian, dreamer, fey, notional, star-gazer, transcendental, viewy, visional, visionary), utopista (utopian), teórico (academical, bookish, speculative, theoretic, theoretical, theoretician, theorist, unpractical). (various references) | |
Romanian | doctrinar (opinioned, pedant), talmudist (pedant, talmudist). (various references) | |
Russian | доктринерский. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | doktriniran, doktrinar (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
Spanish | doctrinario (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
Swedish | doktrinär (doctrinarian), principryttare (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
Turkish | doktrinci (indoctrinator), teorisyen, kuramsal (abstract, academic, academical, hypothetic, hypothetical, notional, pure, speculative, theoretic, theoretical), kuramcı gibi, kuramcı (ideologist, theoretician, theorist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схоластичний (doctrinarian, scholastic), схоласт (doctrinarian, dunce, scholastic, schoolman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh lý luận cố chấp (doctrinarian), hay lý luận cố chấp; giáo điều (doctrinarian). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doctrinaire": doctrinaires. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "doctrinaire": nondoctrinaire, undoctrinaire. (additional references) | |
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"Doctrinaire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doctirnaire, doctranaire. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doctrinaire" (pronounced dÄ'ktrune"r) |
| 4 | -u n e" r | billionaire, concessionaire, debonair, millionaire, multimillionaire, questionnaire. |
| 3 | -n e" r | ensnare, snare. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: coriander, criterion, direction, indicator, irridenta, redaction. | |
-3 letters: acridine, actinide, actinoid, adroiter, anoretic, anterior, arointed, carrotin, cartoned, catenoid, centroid, ceratoid, creation, creditor, criteria, ctenidia, daintier, diatonic, dicentra, director, doctrine, ideation, indicate, indicter, indictor, indirect, interior, iodinate, ordainer, ordinate, rancored, raticide, rationed, reaction, redactor, reindict, reordain, retinoid, tornadic, tricorne. | |
-4 letters: aconite, acrider, adorner, aneroid, antired. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-n-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: doctrinaires. | |
+2 letters: discretionary, undoctrinaire. | |
+3 letters: counterraiding, nondoctrinaire. | |
+4 letters: contradictories, decarburization, radioprotection, reaccreditation, reconsideration. | |
+5 letters: countertradition, decarburizations, nondiscretionary, radioprotections, reaccreditations, reconsiderations. | |
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