opinionative

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Genus: an assemblage of species agreeing in some one character or series of characters; usually considered as arbitrary and opinionative, though some consider it a natural assemblage.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Wolfe Tone declared him to be by far the most impudent and opinionative fellow that he had ever known in his life.

From Burke by Morley, John

She knew that she wanted a friend—some one less opinionative than Mr. Fenshawe—to whom she could appeal for help and guidance when difficulties arose.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis

The opinionative islander turned the still vibrating scale by pulling out a long purse and repeating his original theory, that the whole question was mercantile.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles