opinionative
adj1
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:
2
Of persons Opinionated.
- 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):
- 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:
- Derived terms
- opinionatively, opinionativeness, self-opinionative, unopinionative