opinative

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UK/ˈɒpɪnətɪv/US/əˈpɪnədɪv/

adjective

Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.

OriginMiddle French opinatif ← Late Latin opinativus ← Latin opīnārī →
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Meanings

adjectiveopinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)

comparative more opinative · superlative most opinative

  1. Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
  2. obsoleteOpinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.

    [Socrates] was an illiterate idiot […], to philosophers and travellers, an opinative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant […]

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 44

Origin

  1. Latinopīnārī
  2. Late Latinopinativus
  3. Middle Frenchopinatif
  4. Englishopinative

From opine + -ate + -ive. Middle French opinatif, and its source, Late Latin opinativus, from the participle stem of Latin opīnārī.

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Chicago

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