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, page 190:

     The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.

2. (of persons) Opinionated.
   • 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, 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, chapter 21, in Quentin Durward:

     He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious.

Derived terms

• self-opinionative

 

Translations

relating to opinion

• Italian: opinativo
• Portuguese: opinativo m