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opinionative

opinionative adjective: of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.

Adjective

opinionative (comparative more opinionative, superlative most opinionative)

  1. Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
    • The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, →ISBN, page 190
  2. Opinionated.
    • They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa...
    • He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious.1823, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 21, in Quentin Durward

Forms of opinionative

comparativemore opinionative
superlativemost opinionative

Words formed from opinionative

Questions about opinionative

What does opinionative mean?
Opinionative means of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
What part of speech is opinionative?
Opinionative is an adjective.

Words near opinionative in the dictionary

  1. opinionating
  2. opinionation
  3. opinionations
  4. opinionatist
  5. opinionatists
  6. opinionative
  7. opinionatively
  8. opinionativeness
  9. opinionator
  10. opinionators
  11. opinioned

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