opinative

English

Etymology

From Middle French opinatif, and its source, Late Latin opinativus, from the participle stem of Latin opīnārī.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpɪnətɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪnədɪv/

Adjective

opinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)

1. Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
2. (obsolete) Opinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , 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 […]

Italian

Adjective

opinative f

1. feminine plural of opinativo