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Webster 1913 Edition
Opinionative
O-pin′ion-a-tive
,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.
Definition 2024
opinionative
opinionative
English
Adjective
opinionative (comparative more opinionative, superlative most opinionative)
- 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.
- 1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, ISBN 9780405135392, p. 190:
- (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.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Chapter X
Translations
relating to opinion
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