self-opinionated

American  

[self-uh-pin-yuh-ney-tid, self-] / ˌsɛlf əˈpɪn yəˌneɪ tɪd, ˈsɛlf- /

Also self-opinioned

adjective

1. conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.

2. stubborn or obstinate in holding to one's own opinions, views, etc.

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self-opinionated British  

adjective

1. having an unduly high regard for oneself or one's own opinions

2. clinging stubbornly to one's own opinions

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Etymology

Origin of self-opinionated

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

Robert Tarbet was "self-opinionated and witty", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also "hardworking, loyal and beautiful".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2021

“What I have tried to do,” Mr. McCowen said, “is peel away all those layers of respectability to get back to the violent, self-opinionated little boy that was always bursting out.”

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2017

That hair of hers never could be gray, you know, it's too self-opinionated in its sandiness.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Unhappily he, in no small degree, depreciated this great gift, by clogging it with his own self-opinionated pronunciation of the language, instead of taking it as actually spoken.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

Music was at an extremely low ebb in the little place where we lived; there was nobody to give me any instruction but an old, conceited, self-opinionated organist.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm