Antonyms for doctrinaire
ˈdɒk trəˈnɛərdoc·tri·naire

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1. dogmatist, doctrinaireadjective

   a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

   Antonyms:
   uninstructive

   Synonyms:
   dogmatist

2. doctrinaireadjective

   stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability

   Antonyms:
   uninstructive

How to use doctrinaire in a sentence?

1. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

2. Ana Galindo-Marrone:

   Doug Jones in Alabama, folks, don’t be fooled, he’ll be a vote against tax cuts. He’s weak on crime, weak on borders. He’s strong on raising your taxes. He’s terrible for property owners. And Doug Jones is a doctrinaire liberal which is why he’s not saying anything and the media are trying to boost him.

3. John Elwood:

   Kennedy was not doctrinaire and was sometimes unpredictable. The outcomes of his decisions weren't consistently pro-business or consistently anti-business. He took every case as it came to him.

4. Robert H. Jackson:

   The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

5. Pete Buttigieg:

   On one hand, I believe in conviction politics. I think you need to forcefully defend your values and explain why you believe in the things you believe in, but one reason that you'll hear me not being too doctrinaire about some of these policy groups is an awareness that the reality in government is you're going to be adjusting the finer points of the policy, anyway.

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