opinionative

[uh-pin-yuh-ney-tiv]

adjective

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

2. opinionated.

opinionative

/ əˈpɪnjənətɪv /

adjective

1. of or relating to opinion

2. another word for opinionated

Other Word Forms

• opinionatively adverb
• opinionativeness noun
• nonopinionative adjective
• nonopinionatively adverb
• nonopinionativeness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of opinionative¹

First recorded in 1540–50; opinion + -ative

Example Sentences

You are therefore next to consider him as one highly opinionative and magisterial.

From Project Gutenberg

Vernole was a great Virtuoso, of a Humour nice, delicate, critical and opinionative: he had nothing of the French Mein in him, but all the Gravity of the Don.

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

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But in course of time the gratitude of the country exhausted itself, and Thiers, who was old-fashioned in many of his opinions, and as opinionative as he was old-fashioned, did not make any new friends.

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

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Related Words

• adamant 
• dogmatic 
• headstrong 
• inflexible 
• intransigent 
• recalcitrant 
• steadfast 
• tenacious 
• unyielding 
• willful