Definition of doctrinaire Doctrinaire
/dɑˌktɹʌnɛˈɹ/ - [daktruner] - doc•tri•naire
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What does doctrinaire mean?
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| doctrinaire - stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | ||
| instructive, informative serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | ||
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Wiktionary 
- doctrinaire (Noun)
A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility. - doctrinaire (Adjective)
Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- doctrinaire (n.)
One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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doctrinaire
doc′tri-nār, n. an unpractical theorist, disposed to carry principles to logical but unworkable extremes: in France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.—adj. theorist.—ns. Doctrinā′rian, one given to theory; Doctrinā′rianism, blind adhesion to one-sided principles. [Fr.,—Late L. doctrinarius.]
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🔤- doctrinaire, noun, singular of doctrinaires.
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