opinionative
English
editAdjective
editopinionative (comparative more opinionative, superlative most opinionative)
- Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
- (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.