Opinion

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English

Noun

Opinion (plural Opinions)
  1. A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
    I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
    In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
    Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
    Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde

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Verb

Opinion (third-person singular simple present Opinions, present participle Opinioning, simple past and past participle Opinioned)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
    • 1658, But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

Adjectives for Opinion

conflicting; erroneous; well-founded; preconceived; weightier; fallacious; dispassionate; vulgar; triumphant; optimistic; imperfect; admitted; inconsistent; weening; lagging; mistaken; unequivocal; dissenting; unanimous; immediate; liberal; hard; essential; vain; decorous; ill; misguided; diverse (pi); presumed; clashing; effeminate; half-fabulous; intolerant; hideous; confirmed; candid; desponding; contrary; universal; progressive; plausible; singular; golden; hasty; conciliating; humble; discretional; true; temperate; speculative; undisguised; transient; present-day; contradictory; avowed; realistic; political; extravagant; dwarfed; emancipated; conservative; non-evolutionary; valueless; damning; exaggerated; expert; imperious; religious; public; unbiased; high; antagonistic; unsought; prevailing; adverse; atheistical; critical; reprehensible; authoritative; sincere; unasked; well-informed; monstrous; forceful; swollen; individual; inmost; revolutionary; false; editorial; dissenting; confidential; exalted; adulterated; awed; eccentric; contemptuous; mighty; expressed; implied; prevalent; rash; established; light.

Thesaurus

admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, affect, affectivity, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, apprehension, assessing, assessment, assumption, attitude, belief, brief, briefing, caution, caveat, climate of opinion, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, conjecture, consensus gentium, consideration, consultation, conviction, council, counsel, direction, emotion, emotivity, estimate, estimation, ethos, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, exhortation, expostulation, eye, fancy, feeling, feeling tone, gauging, general belief, guidance, hortation, idea, image, imago, impression, instruction, intellectual object, judgement, judgment, lights, measurement, memory-trace, mental attitude, mental image, mental impression, mind, monition, mystique, notion, observation, parley, perception, personal judgment, persuasion, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, proposal, psychology, public belief, public opinion, ranking, rating, reaction, recept, reckoning, recommendation, reflection, remonstrance, representation, sentiment, sight, speculation, stance, suggestion, supposition, theory, think, thinking, thought, valuation, valuing, view, viewpoint, warning, way of thinking, weighing

Etymology

Middle English opinion, opinioun < Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion < Latin opinio, from opinari, the infinitive of opinor (“to opine”).

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

thought a person has formed about a topic

See also

Verb

have or express as an opinion

Statistics

Esperanto

Noun

Opinion sg.

  1. accusative singular of opinio



French

Noun

Opinion f. (plural Opinions)

  1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Pronunciation

Middle French

Noun

Opinion f. (plural Opinions)

  1. opinion (thought, estimation)
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