dogma
Syllables: dog·maUK/ˈdɒɡ.mə//ˈdɔɡ.mə/
dogma noun: an authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
Noun
dogma (countable and uncountable, plural dogmas or dogmata)
- An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
- If he has a dogma, i.e. a scientifico-philosophical theory, then he is not any sort of Skeptic, not even an urbane Skeptic.2015, Tad Brennan, Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus
- A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
- Holonyms: belief system, cosmology
- Near-synonym: creed
- Synonyms:
- creed
dogma meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dogma in Hindi
- authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion
- हठधर्म haṭhdharm
- doctrine
- आधिकारिक मत ādhikārik mat
dogma in Tamil
- உறுதிக் கோட்பாடு, சமயக் கொள்கை, கோட்பாடு
dogma in Urdu
- dogma
- اصول عقائد usōl e âqaed
dogma in Bengali
- ডগমা
More languagesFewer languages
- dogma in Telugu
- పిడివాదం
- dogma in Malayalam
- ആധികാരികതത്ത്വം, സിദ്ധാന്തം, സൂത്രം, ഹേതുപൂർവ്വമല്ലാത്ത വിധി
- dogma in Kannada
- ತತ್ವ, ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ಮತತತ್ವ, ನಂಬಿಕೆ
- dogma in Odia
- ଡଗମା
- dogma in Arabic
- عَقِيدَة ʕaqīda
- dogma in Thai
- ลัทธิ lát-tí
- dogma in Vietnamese
- giáo điều
- dogma in Myanmar
- ဝါဒ wada.
Examples of dogma in a sentence
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.
- None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […][a. 1881, William B[allantyne] Hodgson, “Noun”, in Errors in the Use of English, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1881, part II...
Synonyms of dogma
Forms of dogma
| plural | dogmas |
|---|---|
| plural | dogmata |
Origin of dogma
From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare decent.
Words formed from dogma
Questions about dogma
- What does dogma mean?
- Dogma means an authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
- What is dogma in Hindi?
- Dogma in Hindi is हठधर्म (haṭhdharm), आधिकारिक मत (ādhikārik mat). See Dogma meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use dogma in a sentence?
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.
- What part of speech is dogma?
- Dogma is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dogma?
- Dogma is pronounced /ˈdɒɡ.mə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dogma?
- The plural of dogma is dogmas.
Words near dogma in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogma (page history and authors); dogma (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اصول عقائد (Urdu) (page history and authors); dogma (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dogma (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dogma (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dogma (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dogma (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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