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dogmatic adj. arbitrary, categorical, dictatorial, imperious,
peremptory, overbearing, doctrinaire, authoritarian, emphatic,
insistent, assertive, arrogant, domineering; obdurate, stubborn;
opinionated, positive, certain, Rare thetic(al), Colloq pushy:
Patrick tends to be quite dogmatic when he is sure of his
ground.
dole n. 1 portion, allotment, share, quota, lot, allowance, parcel;
compensation, benefit, grant, award, donation, gift, largesse,
alms, gratuity; Slang hand-out: The prisoners received a daily
dole of bread. If you've lost your job, are you eligible for the
dole? 2 distribution, apportionment, allocation, dispensation:
The money was given to the disaster victims by dole.
--v. 3 give (out), deal (out), distribute, hand out, mete out,
share (out), dispense, allot, allocate, apportion, Colloq dish
out: They dole out the reparations on the basis of need.
doleful adj. sad, sorrowful, melancholy, gloomy, mournful, cheerless,
joyless, sombre, depressed, disconsolate, blue, down,
distressed, dejected, downhearted, forlorn, unhappy, lugubrious,
dolorous, wretched, miserable, woebegone, dreary, woeful, Colloq
down in the mouth, down in the dumps; distressing, funereal,
depressing, grievous, harrowing: From his doleful expression I
thought he would cry any minute. She lives in the most doleful
surroundings.
dolt n. fool, ass, blockhead, dunce, dullard, idiot, nitwit,
ignoramus, numskull or numbskull, donkey, nincompoop, ninny,
ninny-hammer, simpleton, dunderpate, dunderhead, bonehead,
simpleton, twit, fat-head, goon, moron, imbecile, Colloq dope,
dumb-bell, dim-wit, chump, dummy, halfwit, birdbrain, pinhead,
clot, clod, chucklehead, Brit muggins, US thimble-wit, jerk,
knuckle-head, lunkhead, meat-head, lame-brain, dingbat,
ding-a-ling, flake: The dolt actually tried to buy striped
paint!
domain n. 1 realm, dominion, territory, property, land(s), province,
kingdom, empire: At one time his domain included most of
Europe. 2 province, realm, territory, field, bailiwick, area,
department, sphere, discipline, speciality, specialization,
concern: As a dentist, he considered diseases of the throat
outside his domain.