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Opiniative vs Opinative - What's the difference?

opiniative | opinative |

As adjectives the difference between opiniative and opinative

is that opiniative is archaic form of opinionative while opinative is conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.

opiniative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
    • (Glanvill)

    Related terms

    * opiniatively * opiniativeness (Webster 1913)

    opinative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
  • (obsolete) Opinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.44:
  • *:[Socrates] was an illiterate idiot […], to philosophers and travellers, an opinative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant […].