different between opinative vs opinatively

English

From Middle French opinatif, and its source, Late Latin opinativus, from the participle stem of Latin op?n?r?.

opinative (comparative more opinative, superlative most opinative)

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 […]

opinative f

opinative +? -ly

opinatively (comparative more opinatively, superlative most opinatively)

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