doctrinaire

Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine +‎ -aire.

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. (historical) In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

doctrinaire (comparative more doctrinaire, superlative most doctrinaire)

1. Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
   • 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Marples out of step”, in Trains Illustrated, page 1:

     They showed a new and encouraging Parliamentary appreciation that it is time our national transport problems were examined expertly and without doctrinaire prejudice of any sort—or too much attention to the lobbying of some powerful special interests.

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

• "doctrinaire" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 108.
• “doctrinaire”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

doctrine +‎ -aire

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doctrinaire m or f by sense (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire
2. doctrinal

• doctrinairement

• “doctrinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.