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opinionative

American  
[uh-pin-yuh-nay-tiv] / əˈpɪn jəˌneɪ tɪv /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.

  2. opinionated.


opinionative British  
/ əˈpɪnjənətɪv /

adjective

  1. of or relating to opinion

  2. another word for opinionated

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of opinionative

First recorded in 1540–50; opinion + -ative


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He was a young man, who looked opinionative, and when he first appeared was dressed in city clothes.

From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss

But these quarrels of authors do not degrade the authors in our eyes, they only show them to be, what we knew, as vain, irritable, and opinionative as other men.

From Milton by Mark Pattison

They were not only opinionative," he writes, "peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affections, which never descended below their grandchildren.

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson

One is ignorant when one does not know the good of things; opinionative when one rates things by conventional standards; wise when one knows their real good.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

She was the least selfish of human beings, the least opinionative, the most good-natured.

From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

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