opinative

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English

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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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: [] 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

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Adjective

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opinative f

  1. feminine plural of opinativo