dogmatically
adverb
uk/dɒɡˈmæt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/dɑːɡˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl.i/in a way that is verycertainbecause youthinkthat you arerightand that everyoneelseiswrong:
Managers should nottryto dogmaticallyimposesuchsupposed"bestpractices".
The morepeoplebelievetheiridentityto be underthreat, the more they have dogmatically toassertit.
See
dogmatic
- I am not by anymeansdogmaticallyopposedto theseproducts.
- Mostsciencewasthereforetaughtdogmatically, asfactsorganizedbyproventheories.
- The more dogmaticallycertainsomeone is, thefurtherthey arelikelyto be fromenlightenment.
Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertively
- assertiveness
- dignity
- dogmatic
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- empowered
- rakish
- rakishly
- rakishness
- safe
- safety blanket
- surely
- swag
- swash
- tall
- to be sureidiom