opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪnjən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵˈpin(ɪ)jən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Forms: form: opinions
Etymology: From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
Senses: examples: text: I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
text: In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
text: Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
text: We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.
text: Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist:
synonyms: piece
sentiment
verdict
glosses: A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
examples: text: I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1, line 32:
text: Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
examples: text: Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], signature K2, verso:
text: This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
examples: text: […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], lines 3–6:
glosses: Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
glosses: The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
topics: law
glosses: A judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.
Synonyms: word: take
word: point of view
Derived terms: accountant's opinion
adverse opinion
advisory opinion
be of the opinion
clean opinion
concurring opinion
counteropinion
court of public opinion
court of world opinion
court opinion
difference of opinion
disopinion
dissenting opinion
division of opinion
except for opinion
expert opinion
fairness opinion
feelpinion
freedom of opinion
horseback opinion
in my honest opinion
in my humble opinion
IMHO
in my opinion
in one's opinion
legal opinion
majority opinion
matter of opinion
memorandum opinion
misopinion
opinionable
opinionaire
opinional
opinionate
opinionative
opinion bash
opinioned
opinion former
opinion host
opinionist
opinionize
opinion leader
opinionless
opinionmaker
opinion maker
opinionmaking
opinionnaire
opinion piece
opinion poll
opinion privilege
opinions are like assholes
opinion shopping
opinion show
popular opinion
postopinion
preopinion
public opinion
scientific opinion
second opinion
self-opinion
separate opinion
slip opinion
subject to opinion
Related terms: opination
opine
opinionated
fact