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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.

Related words: (words related to OPINIONATIVE)

  • 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.

 

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