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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.
Definition 2024
opinative
opinative
English
Adjective
opinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)
- Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- (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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.44: