opinion
IPA: ʌpˈɪnjʌn
noun
- A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
- The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
- (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
- (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
- 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.
- (European Union law) 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.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
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Examples of "opinion" in Sentences
- His opinion was disclaimed.
- That was the opinion of the writer.
- It is only the opinion of the accuser.
- The gamut of opinions will be reflected.
- It's the opinion of experts in the field.
- This is the opinion of the administrators.
- _The relations of expert opinion and public opinion_
- I would think the opinion of an actual Korean adoptee is very relevant.
- I also think the majority of the editors are unprofessional and opinionated.
- The views and opinions expressed in this blog are strictly those of the author.
- I am of the opinion it would be pointlessly anthropocentric to think otherwise.
- He said on concluding it: "This is a most decided opinion indeed, quite an '_apple [114] opinion_.'"
- The best part about the Quirin opinion is that the petitioners sought habeas review before conviction.
- Election should be by secret ballot; a cabinet recommended a two-thirds certain opinion of those benefaction when a opinion is taken.
- II. i.196 (34,3) Quite from the main opinion he held once] _Main opinion_, is nothing more than _leading, fixed, predominant opinion_.
- Basically this guy was sugesting that as what I had recieved from Mr. Havock was merely his _opinion_ in the same way as an editorial expresses an opinion, any action I take on the basis of that opinion is my own look out.
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- The most dignified of the many comments which this feature of the trial elicited was by Senator Fessenden, in the official _opinion_ which accompanied his vote: -- "To the suggestion that popular opinion demands the conviction of the President on these charges, I reply that he is not now on trial before the people, but before the Senate.
- (To the objection that this thesis of indefiniteness is itself an opinion, it may be replied that doxa, ˜opinion™, is regularly used in earlier Greek philosophy, especially in Parmenides and Plato, to refer to those opinions ” misguided opinions, in the view of these authors ” that take on trust a view of the world as conforming more or less to the way it appears in ordinary experience.
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