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to dogmatize

to dogmatize

9.5
To say your opinion is definitely right and not listen to other views
  • verb
  • /ˈdɔɡməˌtaɪz/
translation icon : dogmatizar
  • The professor tends to dogmatize her ideas without considering other perspectives during debates.

When left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Examples

  • Although our economic position relative to these allies has improved in the twelve years since the publication of A Nation at Risk (which dogmatized the alleged failures of America's schools), the litany of published public school criticism has continued largely unabated.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Is this therefore an act of dogmatizing?

    Academic text (2002)

  • When left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • Even in the 1960s and the 1970s, the evidence was strong that the economy was unproductive, the polity authoritarian, the culture dogmatized, the society militarized, and the country dependent on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

    Academic text (1992)

  • So-called "liberal economic theory" and "dependency theory" are today almost fully dogmatized, and the realities they purport to explain are crying out for alternative, innovative metaphysical treatments.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The Stoics were, however, very different from Socrates in the degree to which they dogmatized: that is, having worked out the arguments as best they could, they taught them as true and evolved a highly systematic and elaborate scheme of interconnected doctrines across all the major areas of philosophy.

    Academic text (2000)

  • It's important not to dogmatize your beliefs, as there are always alternative viewpoints to consider.

  • When he dogmatizes about history, he dismisses any evidence that contradicts his narrative.

Synonyms

to pontificate
vsto dogmatize
13 8.7

To speak in a self-important way as if always right

states opinions as certain and unquestionable without considering other views

Antonyms

to consider
∞ 1.1

To think carefully before making a decision

to debate
474 2.8

To discuss and argue about a topic in a formal way

How Dogmatic

to dogmatize
9.5
to assert
229 3.9
to declare
  • Formal
950 3.7
to state
∞ 1.6
to propose
∞ 3.0
to suggest
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

dogmatize infinitive
dogmatized past
dogmatized past participle
dogmatizing present participle
dogmatizes third person singular

Morphology

dogmatize = dogma (transparent) = dogma + ize

Standard verb formation from 'dogma' with the productive suffix '-ize'; meaning 'to treat or assert as dogma' is directly derived.

Etymology

Dogmatize comes from the old Greek word dogma, which means 'opinion' or 'belief'. To dogmatize is to treat your view like a fixed rule and not consider other views, so the origin explains why it means stating opinions as if they are certainly true.