Word.ws English Dictionary

undoctrinaire

undoctrinaire adjective: not doctrinaire.

Adjective

undoctrinaire (comparative more undoctrinaire, superlative most undoctrinaire)

  1. Not doctrinaire.
    • Partway through her undoctrinaire book, Royte, a lifelong fan of tap water, refills her old plastic water bottle, reflecting that “what once seemed so simple and natural, a drink of water, is neither.2008 June 15, Lisa Margonelli, “Tapped Out”, in New York Times

Forms of undoctrinaire

comparativemore undoctrinaire
superlativemost undoctrinaire

Origin of undoctrinaire

From un- + doctrinaire.

Questions about undoctrinaire

What does undoctrinaire mean?
Undoctrinaire means not doctrinaire.
What part of speech is undoctrinaire?
Undoctrinaire is an adjective.

Words near undoctrinaire in the dictionary

  1. undoctored
  2. undoctoring
  3. undoctorlike
  4. undoctorly
  5. undoctors
  6. undoctrinaire
  7. undoctrinal
  8. undoctrined
  9. undocument
  10. undocumentable
  11. undocumentably

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: undoctrinaire (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “undoctrinaire.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/undoctrinaire. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.