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dogmatic adj. arbitrary, categorical, dictatorial, imperious,<br />

peremptory, overbearing, doctrinaire, authoritarian, emphatic,<br />

insistent, assertive, arrogant, domineering; obdurate, stubborn;<br />

opinionated, positive, certain, Rare thetic(al), Colloq pushy:<br />

Patrick tends to be quite dogmatic when he is sure of his<br />

ground.<br />

dole<br />

n. 1 portion, allotment, share, quota, lot, allowance, parcel;<br />

compensation, benefit, grant, award, donation, gift, largesse,<br />

alms, gratuity; Slang hand-out: The prisoners received a daily<br />

dole of bread. If you've lost your job, are you eligible for the<br />

dole? 2 distribution, apportionment, allocation, dispensation:<br />

The money was given to the disaster victims by dole.<br />

--v. 3 give (out), deal (out), distribute, hand out, mete out,<br />

share (out), dispense, allot, allocate, apportion, Colloq dish<br />

out: They dole out the reparations on the basis of need.<br />

doleful adj. sad, sorrowful, melancholy, gloomy, mournful, cheerless,<br />

joyless, sombre, depressed, disconsolate, blue, down,<br />

distressed, dejected, downhearted, forlorn, unhappy, lugubrious,<br />

dolorous, wretched, miserable, woebegone, dreary, woeful, Colloq<br />

down in the mouth, down in the dumps; distressing, funereal,<br />

depressing, grievous, harrowing: From his doleful expression I<br />

thought he would cry any minute. She lives in the most doleful<br />

surroundings.<br />

dolt<br />

n. fool, ass, blockhead, dunce, dullard, idiot, nitwit,<br />

ignoramus, numskull or numbskull, donkey, nincompoop, ninny,<br />

ninny-hammer, simpleton, dunderpate, dunderhead, bonehead,<br />

simpleton, twit, fat-head, goon, moron, imbecile, Colloq dope,<br />

dumb-bell, dim-wit, chump, dummy, halfwit, birdbrain, pinhead,<br />

clot, clod, chucklehead, Brit muggins, US thimble-wit, jerk,<br />

knuckle-head, lunkhead, meat-head, lame-brain, dingbat,<br />

ding-a-ling, flake: The dolt actually tried to buy striped<br />

paint!<br />

domain n. 1 realm, dominion, territory, property, land(s), province,<br />

kingdom, empire: At one time his domain included most of<br />

Europe. 2 province, realm, territory, field, bailiwick, area,<br />

department, sphere, discipline, speciality, specialization,<br />

concern: As a dentist, he considered diseases of the throat<br />

outside his domain.

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