notionate
Americanadjective
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strong-willed or stubborn.
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having foolish and fanciful notions.
Etymology
Origin of notionate
Example Sentences
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Really, Horace, I had no idea you were so notionate.
From Elsie Dinsmore by Finley, Martha
I have heard my father tell it a thousand times in his pleasantry, how it was when my mother was a bride but newly come home and notionate, that she learned him these tricks.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"I never knowed her to do nothin' notionate but thet," remarked Mrs. Nance, in speaking of it afterwards.
From Louisiana by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Thet was kinder notionate fer a gal to do.
From Louisiana by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Yaas," she said, expansively, "she's cur'us, kinder onsosherble 'n' notionate.
From Lodusky by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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