Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Opinionated; obstinate in maintaining one's opinions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Obstinate in holding opinions; opinionated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
  • adjective obsolete Opinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.

Etymologies

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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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Examples

  • Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is all: that thy opinion do not beget in thy understanding anything contrary to either nature, or the proper constitution of a rational creature.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

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