opinative

English edit

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

opinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)

Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
(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 […]

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