Definition list display different in Sphinx 2.1

[agjohnson]

In Sphinx 1.8:

In Sphinx 2.1, the domain styling leaks through:

Also affects field lists in the same way:

[zaneselvans]

Whew, running into the same issue. I was starting to think I was crazy.

[DrLuke]

Ran into same issue, hope this is fixed soon.

In the meantime my workaround is to downgrade to Sphinx 1.8.5:

pip uninstall sphinx
pip install sphinx==1.8.5

Note: You will need to rename index.rst to contenst.rst

I didn't have to make any other adjustmens to my very basic project, YMMV though.