opinionative

English

Adjective

opinionative (comparative more opinionative, superlative most opinionative)

  1. Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
    • 1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, →ISBN, p. 190:
      The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.
  2. (of persons) Opinionated.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], chapter X, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
      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.

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