self-oˈpinionated, ppl. a.
[f. self-opinion.]
1. Having an exaggerated opinion of oneself; self-conceited.
| 1671 Stillingfl. Serm. viii. Wks. 1710 I. 114 There never was a nation more self-opinionated as to their wisdom, goodness, and interest with God. 1674 Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. v. 187 Most men are so self-opinionated, that they will easily believe themselves masters of things, if they do but half understand them. 1825 Hazlitt Spirit of Age 372 He is no formalist, not he! All is crude and chaotic, self-opinionated, vain. |
2. Obstinate in one's opinion.
| 1770 Langhorne Plutarch (1879) II. 590 A body of Germans, who were so rash and self-opinionated as to separate from the troops of Spartacus. 1857 Toulmin Smith Parish 148 Self-opinionated doctrinairism. 1868 J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 538 The young priest was far too self-opinionated to yield to argument. |
Hence
self-oˈpinionatedness; so
self-oˈpinionative a.,
self-oˈpinionativeness.
| 1730 Bailey (fol.), Affectation, Affectedness, Conceitedness, *Self-opinionatedness. 1888 Gore R.C. Claims viii. 119 The temper of self-opinionatedness. |
| 1904 H. Black Pract. Self-Culture viii. 225 A man *self-opinionative and harsh. |
| 1857 Pusey Real Presence i. (1869) 65 Whose docility, unspoiled by any *self-opinionativeness. |