Word Meanings - OPINIONATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
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- OPINIONATOR
An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South. - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - CONJECTURABLE
Capable of being conjectured or guessed. - OPINIONATE
Opinionated. - PRACTICAL
1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay. - PRACTICALLY
1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3. - OPINIONIST
One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill. - CONJECTURE
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing - ATTACH
tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to - OPINIONABLE
Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - OPINIONATED
Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - CONJECTURALIST
A conjecturer. Month. rev. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - OPINIONATIST
An opinionist. - ATTACHABLE
Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept. - ATTACHE
One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - PRACTICALITY
The quality or state of being practical; practicalness. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - UNPRACTICAL
Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - REATTACHMENT
The act of reattaching; a second attachment. - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - SELF-OPINION
Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.