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Opinion   /əpˈɪnjən/   Listen
Opinion

noun
1.
A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.  Synonyms: persuasion, sentiment, thought, view.  "I am not of your persuasion" , "What are your thoughts on Haiti?"
2.
A message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.  Synonym: view.
3.
A belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people.  Synonyms: popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi.
4.
The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision.  Synonyms: judgement, judgment, legal opinion.
5.
The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself).  Synonym: ruling.
6.
A vague idea in which some confidence is placed.  Synonyms: belief, feeling, impression, notion.  "What are your feelings about the crisis?" , "It strengthened my belief in his sincerity" , "I had a feeling that she was lying"



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"Opinion" Quotes from Famous Books



... a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have ...
— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... sensation, he had spoken as follows:—'Those who would assert that this position is not universally true, nor without exception, have only one, and that an easy, method of refuting it, by producing the idea which, in their opinion, is not derived from this source. It will then be incumbent on us, if we would maintain our doctrine, to produce the impression or lively perception which corresponds to it.' He was much too candid not to have acknowledged that this challenge of his had been fairly and fully met. He ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

... Enough, anyhow, to tide you over your bad time. There's something in the wind there. It's to do with fightin'. She asked questions about your height, weight, and my opinion of your prospect. You can lay that my ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... In my opinion the apse was excavated to receive the monument, which consists of a mass of chalk in position, with a hole on one side to receive the coffins let down into the seigneural vault; and this could not have been there with a high altar behind it. In a lateral ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

... afternoon, where every day from four to six he played bridge with his own little group, reactionaries like himself, men who viewed the difficulties of the younger employers of labor with amused contempt. For another, he and Howard had had a difference of opinion, and he had, for a ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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