Synonyms of opinionated

opinionated

adjective

ə-ˈpin-yə-ˌnā-təd 

1

as in opinioned

given to or marked by the forceful expression of strongly held opinions

those talk shows want opinionated pundits, not cautious, diffident debaters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• opinioned
• opinionative
• stubborn
• adamant
• dogmatic
• doctrinaire
• pontifical
• self-opinionated
• obstinate
• headstrong
• rigid
• mulish
• implacable
• pigheaded
• hardheaded
• unbending
• obdurate
• pertinacious
• adamantine
• self-willed
• inflexible
• unyielding
• perverse

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undogmatic
• latitudinarian
• broadminded
• receptive
• open-minded
• open
• undoctrinaire

2

as in stubborn

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

an opinionated professor who often clashes with students who dare to disagree with him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stubborn
• adamant
• steadfast
• hardened
• headstrong
• obstinate
• obsessive
• bullheaded
• intransigent
• hardheaded
• willful
• uncompromising
• implacable
• inflexible
• unbending
• obdurate
• pigheaded
• mulish
• pertinacious
• unyielding
• self-opinionated
• immovable
• ossified
• unrelenting
• determined
• hard-nosed
• dogged
• hard
• pat
• self-willed
• adamantine
• strict
• persistent
• perverse
• stiff-necked
• relentless
• inconvincible
• tenacious
• stern
• iron
• cantankerous
• unflinching
• defiant
• resolved
• narrow-minded
• rigid
• deaf to reason
• wrongheaded
• wayward
• severe
• single-minded
• hard-line
• hidebound
• inexorable
• uncooperative
• unruly
• anal-retentive
• intractable
• contumacious
• stouthearted
• disobedient
• mutinous
• indomitable
• firm
• unmanageable
• recalcitrant
• hard-shell
• cussed
• insubordinate
• contrary
• bloody-minded
• confirmed
• refractory
• inveterate
• ungovernable
• invincible
• demanding
• set
• insurgent
• froward
• hell-bent
• unconquerable
• exacting
• unregenerate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flexible
• agreeable
• compliant
• pliable
• acquiescent
• amenable
• docile
• pliant
• submissive
• obedient
• responsive
• tractable
• complying
• receptive
• yielding
• willing
• accepting
• reasonable
• manageable
• placable
• temperate
• persuadable
• relenting
• subservient
• slavish
• governable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of opinionated

Producer Barack Obama, who will also appear on the show, previously teased his collaboration with the famously grumpy and opinionated David. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026

Leaving the book over editorial disagreements became a pattern that repeated several times in Byrne’s career, and his willingness to be blunt about his peers’ quality of work earned him a reputation of being opinionated. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026

Mary Holland said the creative process worked because the sisters are all opinionated in different ways. — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 June 2026

With him is trusted aide and very opinionated meteorologist Irving Krick (Chris Messina), who has given him key weather forecasts on several campaigns and is doing so again for perhaps the biggest ever attempted, a seaborne invasion onto the beaches of Normandy in France planned for June 5, 1944. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 May 2026