opinionative

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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 Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Subgenus: a division within a genus, based upon a character not sufficient for generic separation; opinionative.

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

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

At first the piquancy and recklessness of her opinionative speech amused him as part of her characteristic flavor, or as a lingering youthfulness which the maturer intellect always pardons.

From Clarence by Harte, Bret

But in course of time the gratitude of the country exhausted itself, and Thiers, who was old-fashioned in many of his opinions, and as opinionative as he was old-fashioned, did not make any new friends.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)