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Doctrinaire vs Rigid - What's the difference?

doctrinaire | rigid |

As adjectives the difference between doctrinaire and rigid

is that doctrinaire is stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality while rigid is rigid.

As a noun doctrinaire

is a person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.

doctrinaire

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

    • Related terms

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

    rigid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stiff, rather than flexible.
  • Fixed, rather than moving.
  • * 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
    • A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
  • Rigorous and unbending.
  • Uncompromising.

    • Synonyms

    * unbending, inflexible

    Antonyms

    * flexible * moving * compromising

    Derived terms

    * rigidity * rigidly * rigidness

    Related terms

    * rigor * rigour

    References

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