self-opinionated
Americanadjective
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conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
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stubborn or obstinate in holding to one's own opinions, views, etc.
adjective
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having an unduly high regard for oneself or one's own opinions
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clinging stubbornly to one's own opinions
Etymology
Origin of self-opinionated
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Robert Tarbet was "self-opinionated and witty", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also "hardworking, loyal and beautiful".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2021
“What I have tried to do,” Mr. McCowen said, “is peel away all those layers of respectability to get back to the violent, self-opinionated little boy that was always bursting out.”
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2017
"And yet never vulgar," rejoined Upton,—"never affecting to be other than he is; and, stranger still, not self-opinionated and conceited."
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
Young men were so intolerably self-opinionated now-a-days, she declared, that no doubt General Dorrien had not been unjustified in what he did.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
While Rhodes was already a man in mind and body, I was still a boy, and an ignorant, self-opinionated, argumentative one at that.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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