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Opinionative adj.

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.

Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. (Obs.) "Things both opinionative and practical."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Opinionative" Quotes from Famous Books

... fathers, what I must believe in order to be a Catholic?’ ‘You must say,’ they all cried at once, ‘that all the just have the proximate power.’ . . . ‘What necessity can there be,’ I argued, ‘for using a word which has neither authority nor definite meaning?’ ‘You are an opinionative fellow,’ they replied. ‘You shall use the word, or you are a heretic, and M. Arnauld also; for we are the majority, and if necessary we can bring the Cordeliers into the field and carry ...

— Pascal • John Tulloch

... and in placing both the army and the civil service on a more satisfactory footing. But in course of time the gratitude of the country exhausted itself, and Thiers, who was old-fashioned in many of his opinions, and as opinionative as he was old-fashioned, did not make any new friends. He was specially detested by the Extreme Left, whose chief, Gambetta, he styled a fou furieux. As a result, a coalition of Reactionaries and Radicals was formed expressly, as it seemed, ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various

Words linked to "Opinionative" : narrow, opine, narrow-minded, opinionated, self-opinionated