One who claims to maintain or support a computer system but in all actuality only has opinions on how it should be done and may in fact have no hands-on experience to back up said advice.
The chief system opinionstrator criticized how the system administrators actually handled the upgrade, nevermind he had never done an upgrade himself.
To express one's opinion. The word is similar to conversate. Speakers who use conversate tend to also use opinionate.
That bitch was starting to opinionate about how much she don't like my clothes in front of the other girls at the party until I told her to shut the fuck up.
He was so adamant about wearing a mask at the store. His cousin passed from Covid......Next day, he went clubbing with a Trump hat on. He believes in his constitutional rights. What an opinionatapus.
Having and voicing an opinion is different from being opinionated. Opinionated rightly has negative connotations because it means doggedly holding on to your opinions without considering circumstances and/or facts and/or advice/views of others.
Someone who isn't afraid to give their personal opinion. It doesn't have to be a bad thing. It's just someone that doesn't stay quiet, if they don't agree with something.
The only people who see it as bad and attach stigma (like the other definitions) to it are those that don't like to hear opinionated people talk.
Yes, you can be opinionated and polite at the same time. Being polite doesn't mean you have to agree with every objectionable thing that's said.