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"unregenerate", "demanding", "exacting" ], "near antonyms":[ "docile", "obedient", "placable", "submissive", "tractable", "accepting", "persuadable", "receptive", "responsive", "willing", "governable", "manageable", "reasonable", "temperate", "slavish", "subservient" ], "antonyms":[ "acquiescent", "agreeable", "amenable", "compliant", "complying", "flexible", "pliable", "pliant", "relenting", "yielding" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "opines":{ "to make a statement of one's opinion":{ "examples":[ "the food critic opined that the restaurant's fare was something that one might serve a dog\u2014if one didn't like dogs" ], "synonyms":[ "allows", "comments", "editorializes", "notes", "observes", "reflects", "remarks", "weighs in" ], "near synonyms":[ "commentates", "articulates", "expresses", "says", "speaks", "states", "talks", "tells", "utters", "verbalizes", "vocalizes", "conjectures", "daresays", "guesses", "speculates", "supposes", "surmises" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "opinionatedness":{ "a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{ "examples":[ "guests on that political talk show seem to be far more prized for their uninhibited opinionatedness than for any trace of reasonableness" ], "synonyms":[ "bullheadedness", "doggedness", "hardheadedness", "intransigence", "mulishness", "obduracy", "obdurateness", "obstinacy", "obstinateness", "pertinaciousness", "pertinacity", "pigheadedness", "self-opinionatedness", "self-will", "stubbornness", "willfulness" ], "near synonyms":[ "anal-retentiveness", "perverseness", "perversity", "waywardness", "wrongheadedness", "adamancy", "adamance", "determination", "implacability", "inexorability", "inflexibility", "inveteracy", "perseverance", "persistence", "persistency", "relentlessness", "resolve", "single-mindedness", "steadfastness", "stick-to-itiveness", "tenaciousness", "tenacity", "firmness", "hardness", "rigor", "rigorousness", "sternness", "strictness", "narrow-mindedness", "rigidity", "rigidness", "bloody-mindedness", "cantankerousness", "contrariness", "cussedness", "balkiness", "contumacy", "defiance", "disobedience", "frowardness", "immovability", "immovableness", "insubordination", "intractability", "obstreperousness", "rebelliousness", "recalcitrance", "recalcitrancy", "refractoriness", "unruliness" ], "near antonyms":[ "broad-mindedness", "open-mindedness", "reasonability", "reasonableness", "receptiveness", "receptivity", "acceptance", "acquiescence", "flexibility", "pliability", "pliableness", "pliancy", "pliantness", "compliance", "docility", "obedience", "subordinateness", "subordination", "submission", "surrender", "willingness", "yielding", "slavishness", "subservience", "subserviency" ], "antonyms":[] }, "stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices":{ "examples":[ "in matters of religion, she seems to confuse self-righteous opinionatedness with godly devotion" ], "synonyms":[ "bigotry", "dogmatism", "illiberalism", "illiberality", "illiberalness", "intolerance", "intolerantness", "narrow-mindedness", "partisanship", "sectarianism", "small-mindedness" ], "near synonyms":[ "conservatism", "reactionaryism", "insularism", "insularity", "parochialism", "provincialism" ], "near antonyms":[ "progressiveness", "progressivism" ], "antonyms":[ "broad-mindedness", "liberalism", "liberality", "open-mindedness", "tolerance" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "opiates":{ "something that soothes, calms, or induces passivity or a sense of security":{ "examples":[ "a cultural critic who argues that the Internet has now joined television as an opiate of the American people" ], "synonyms":[ "anesthetics", "anodynes", "narcotics" ], "near synonyms":[ "security blankets", "pacifiers", "palliatives", "hypnotics", "sedatives", "soporifics", "tranquilizers", "tranquillizers" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "opined":{ "to make a 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"pertinacious", "perverse", "pigheaded", "rigid", "self-willed", "stubborn", "unbending", "unyielding" ], "near antonyms":[ "broadminded", "open", "open-minded", "receptive" ], "antonyms":[ "latitudinarian", "undoctrinaire", "undogmatic" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] } }