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Webster 1913 Edition


Opinionative

O-pin′ion-a-tive

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Adj.
1.
Unduly attached to one’s own opinions; opinionated.
Milton.
2.
Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured.
[Obs.]
“Things both opinionative and practical.”
Bunyan.
O-pin′ion-a-tive-ly
,
adv.
O-pin′ion-a-tive-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Opinionative

OPIN'IONATIVE

,
Adj.
Fond of preconceived notions; unduly attached to one's own opinions.

Definition 2024


opinionative

opinionative

English

Adjective

opinionative (comparative more opinionative, superlative most opinionative)

  1. Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
    • 1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, ISBN 9780405135392, p. 190:
      The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.
  2. (of persons) Opinionated.
    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Chapter X
      They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection.
    • 1823, Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward, ch. 21:
      He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious.

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