Adjective: opinionative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more opinionative |
| Superlative | most opinionative |
Sample Sentences
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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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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):]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like opinionative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology