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opinionative

American  
[uh-pin-yuh-ney-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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Lucy is opinionative, and now and then embarrassingly candid, but she leads a life that most of us would shrink from.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss

In this he but copied the adversary—Parson Endicott, for example—who hated Dissent, perceiving that it rested on self-assertiveness, encouraging unlearned men to be opinionative in error.

From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Tribe: a term of classification less than a subfamily: opinionative and ending in ini: but this is not universally adhered to.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

Wolfe Tone declared him to be by far the most impudent and opinionative fellow that he had ever known in his life.

From Burke by John Morley

These are ever those who are loudest in their censures, and most dogmatic in their opinionative utterances.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

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