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OPINIONATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does opinionated mean?
• OPINIONATED (adjective)
The adjective OPINIONATED has 1 sense:
1. obstinate in your opinions
Familiarity information: OPINIONATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Obstinate in your opinions
Synonyms:
opinionated; opinionative; self-opinionated
Similar:
narrow; narrow-minded (lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view)
Context examples
Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court: and we often find by experience, that young men are too opinionated and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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