opinionated

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/, [əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.ɾɪd]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.tɪd/, [əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.ɾɪd]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈpən.jə.næɪ.təd/, [əˈpən.jə.næɪ.ɾəd]

Verb

opinionated

1. simple past and past participle of opinionate

Adjective

opinionated (comparative more opinionated, superlative most opinionated)

1. (of a person) Having very strong opinions.

   Antonym: unopinionated

   Her dad is so opinionated that when he's around it is hard to simply relax and have a light conversation.

2. (of a person) Holding to one's own opinion obstinately and unreasonably.

   Her dad is so opinionated that the others' preferences were overridden and no one had any fun on the outing.

3. (of statements or content) Infused with opinions rather than wholly objective.

   His essay was opinionated, which was a problem because the assignment had been to write a factual analysis.

4. (software engineering) Enforcing one particular approach instead of offering options and flexibility.

   an opinionated framework

Derived terms

• nonopinionated
• opinionatedly
• opinionatedness
• overopinionated
• self-opinionated

Translations

holding very strong opinions

• Arabic: مُتَعَنِّت m (mutaʕannit)
• Bulgarian: догматичен (bg) (dogmatičen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有主見的 / 有主见的 (zh) (yǒuzhǔjiàn de)

• Finnish: kärkevä, jyrkkä (fi)
• German: dogmenbehaftet, eigensinnig (de)
• Hungarian: dogmatikus (hu)
• Irish: amhrasach
• Portuguese: opinoso, opiniático (pt)
• Spanish: casado con su opinión / dictamen, muy opinador / opinante
• Turkish: ön yargılı (tr)

obstinately holding to one's opinion

• Bulgarian: упорит (bg) (uporit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 固執己見的 / 固执己见的 (zh) (gùzhíjǐjiàn de)

• Finnish: itsepäinen (fi), besserwisser (fi)
• French: opiniâtre (fr)
• German: besserwisserisch (de), rechthaberisch (de)
• Hebrew: דַּעְתָּן m (da'tán)
• Hungarian: konok (hu), önfejű (hu)
• Portuguese: teimoso (pt)
• Russian: упря́мый (ru) (uprjámyj), своево́льный (ru) (svojevólʹnyj)
• Spanish: obstinado (es), terco (es), ergotista (es), dogmático (es), respondón, sabiondo (es), pedante (es)
• Turkish: sabit fikirli (tr)