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Pertinacious vs Doctrinaire - What's the difference?

pertinacious | doctrinaire |

As adjectives the difference between pertinacious and doctrinaire

is that pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose while doctrinaire is stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

As a noun doctrinaire is

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

pertinacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
  • * 1884', , "The Path of Duty" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 2 (15): 240–256.
  • *:He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
  • Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * pertinaciousness * pertinacity

    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