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Webster 1913 Edition


Opinative

O-pin′a-tive

,
Adj.
Obstinate in holding opinions; opinionated.
[Obs.]
O-pin′a-tive-ly
,
adv.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Sir T. More.

Webster 1828 Edition


Opinative

OPIN'ATIVE

,
Adj.
Stiff in opinion. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


opinative

opinative

English

Adjective

opinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)

  1. Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
  2. (obsolete) Opinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.44:
      [Socrates] was an illiterate idiot […], to philosophers and travellers, an opinative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant […].

Italian

Adjective

opinative f

  1. feminine plural of opinativo