opinionative en · ADJ
Meanings
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Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.
1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, →ISBN, page 190:
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(of persons) Opinionated.
He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious.
1823, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 21, in Quentin Durward:They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection.
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):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most opinionative | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more opinionative | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
opinionativeness · opinionatively · unopinionative · self-opinionative
Translations (2)
it opinativo (relating to opinion) · pt opinativo (relating to opinion)