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opinionated

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having very strong opinions. 2 holding to one's own opinion obstinately, stubbornly and unreasonable

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"obstinate," c.1600, past participle adjective from opinionate .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. obstinate in your opinions [syn: opinionative , self-opinionated ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ opinionated professors EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And she looks up to me for what she sees as my drive, my opinionated wit. ▪ But now she will be able to return to her outspoken, opinionated self. ▪ Dana was opinionated ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opinionated \O*pin"ion*a`ted\, a. Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. --Sir W. Scott.

Usage examples of opinionated.

The ghastly tale which they told could not have been utterly unread even by the obtuse and opinionated mind of the vain mother.

Antonin Scalia is certainly the most ideological and opinionated justice on the Court today.

That Adams could be blunt, stubborn, opinionated, vain, and given to jealousy was understood.

Tall, lean, and severe-looking, with a lantern jaw and hard blue eyes, he was Salem-born-and-bred, a Harvard graduate, proud, opinionated, self-righteous, and utterly humorless.

Adams was warm, loquacious, more personal and opinionated, often humorous and willing to poke fun at himself.

One was a consumer advocate for CBS television, a former runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss America contest, thirty years old, rather puckishly committed to a variation on the original Ann-Margret coiffure which, given all proper due, admirably suited her auburn hair, opinionated, contentious beyond belief, and directly responsible for a Xerox price rollback that had cost the firm nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

She was the quintessence of all nannies, opinionated, faithful, illogical, exasperating and admirable.

That Adams could be blunt, stubborn, opinionated, vain, and given to jealousy was understood.

Vandene did not think much of the woman, calling her opinionated and muleheaded, but Careane had almost fainted in awe at hearing her name.

Bork calls her opinionated, obstinate and cantankerous, but this is not quite the same thing.

Vivacious without being cloyingly coquettish, well-educated and well-read but never pretentious, direct in her conversation without seeming either bold or opinionated, she was charming company.

For the greatest profit and enjoyment they should be viewed as nature intended, with the eye of innocence, unclouded by theories and preconceptions, with the manifold vision, innate in all of us, that enriches and dignifies human life, rather than with the cultivated single vision of the dull and opinionated.

In subtle, unnoticeable stages, in ways that Russo could never quite recall, Nora had altered in three years of married life from a skinny, suntanned, nineteen-year-old nymphct, pretty and shy, into a talkative, opinionated, intolerant young housewife in a lurex headscarf and rollers, organizer of the local church social club, the La Mirada PTA, and a never-ending ten-ring circus of coffee-and-cake mornings, baby showers, and lectures by white-haired evangelists who stank of tobacco.

That old boy knows me too damned well, I ought to fire him and get somebody less opinionated.

Abel, and Barbara, it is certain that no member of the family evinced such a remarkable partiality for him as the self-willed pony, who, from being the most obstinate and opinionated pony on the face of the earth, was, in his hands, the meekest and most tractable of animals.