opinion

See also: opinión

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɪnjən/

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• Hyphenation: opin‧ion
• Rhymes: -ɪnjən

Noun

opinion (countable and uncountable, plural opinions)

1. A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

   Synonyms: piece, sentiment, verdict

   I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.

   In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

   Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

   We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist:

     Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
   • 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:

     I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
   • 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:

     Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]

   • 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:

     This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.

4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
   • 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:

     […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]

5. 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.
6. (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.

Synonyms

• take (noun)
• 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
• opinional
• opinionate
• opinionative
• opinioned
• opinion former
• opinion host
• opinionist
• opinion leader
• opinionless
• opinion maker
• opinionmaking
• 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

Translations

thought a person has formed about a topic

Albanian: mendim (sq) m Arabic: رَأْي m (raʔy), نَظَر (ar) m (naẓar), فِكْر (ar) m (fikr), عَقِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaqīda) Hijazi Arabic: رَإِي m (raʔi) Armenian: կարծիք (hy) (karcikʻ) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: opinión (ast) f Azerbaijani: fikir (az), rəy (az), nəzər (az) Bashkir: фекер (feker), уй (uy) Basque: iritzi Belarusian: зда́нне n (zdánnje), зда́ньне n (zdánʹnje), ду́мка (be) f (dúmka), пагля́д m (pahljád), по́гляд m (póhljad), меркава́нне n (mjerkavánnje), меркава́ньне n (mjerkavánʹnje) Bengali: অভিমতি (bn) (obhimoti), নজর (bn) (nojor) Bulgarian: мне́ние (bg) n (mnénie), въ́зглед (bg) m (vǎ́zgled), схва́щане (bg) n (shváštane) Burmese: ဆန္ဒ (my) (hcanda.), အထင် (my) (a.htang) Buryat: һанал (hanal) Catalan: opinió (ca) f, parer (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 意見 / 意见 (ji3 gin3), 睇法 (tai2 faat3) Dungan: йиҗян (yiži͡an) Hokkien: 意見 / 意见 (zh-min-nan) (ì-kiàn) Mandarin: 意見 / 意见 (zh) (yìjiàn), 看法 (zh) (kànfǎ), 見解 / 见解 (zh) (jiànjiě) Czech: názor (cs) m, posudek (cs) m, mínění (cs) n Danish: mening c Dutch: mening (nl) f, opinie (nl) f, visie (nl) f, zienswijze (nl) f, gedachte (nl) f Esperanto: opinio Estonian: arvamus (et) Finnish: mielipide (fi), näkemys (fi), mieli (fi) French: avis (fr) m, opinion (fr) f Friulian: parè Galician: opinión (gl) f Georgian: აზრი (ka) (azri), მოსაზრება (mosazreba), შეხედულება (šexeduleba) German: Meinung (de) f, Ansicht (de) f, Anschauung (de) f Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽𐍃 f (mitōns) Greek: γνώμη (el) f (gnómi), άποψη (el) f (ápopsi) Ancient: γνώμη f (gnṓmē) Gujarati: અભિપ્રાય (abhiprāya) Hebrew: דֵעָה (he) f (de'á) Hindi: विचार (hi) m (vicār), राय (hi) f (rāy), ख़याल m (xayāl), अभिमत (hi) (abhimat), नज़र m (nazar) Hungarian: vélemény (hu), nézet (hu), szakvélemény (hu) Icelandic: álit Ido: opiniono (io) Indonesian: opini (id) pendapat (id) Irish: tuairim (ga), meas m, barúil (ga) f Italian: opinione (it) f, concetto (it) m, parere (it), giudizio (it) m Japanese: 意見 (ja) (いけん, iken), 見解 (ja) (けんかい, kenkai), オピニオン (opinion) Kannada: ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ (kn) (abhiprāya) Kazakh: пікір (pıkır), ой (kk) (oi) Khalaj: aqîdə Khmer: យោបល់ (km) (yoobɑl), មតិ (km) (mĕəʼteʼ), គំនិត (km) (kumnɨt) Korean: 의견(意見) (ko) (uigyeon), 견해(見解) (ko) (gyeonhae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nêrîn (ku), ray (ku), boçûn (ku) Kyrgyz: пикир (ky) (pikir), ой (ky) (oy) Lao: ຄວາມເຫັນ (khuām hen), ທັດສະນະ (that sa na), ສຽງ (lo) (sīang) Latgalian: redzīņs m Latin: ōpīniō f, sententia f, iudicium (la) n Latvian: doma f, viedoklis m Ligurian: òpinión Lithuanian: nuomonė (lt) f Luxembourgish: Meenung (lb) f, Avis (lb) m, Usiicht f Macedonian: мислење n (mislenje), мнение n (mnenie), суд (mk) m (sud) Malay: pendapat (ms) Malayalam: അഭിപ്രായം (ml) (abhiprāyaṁ) Maltese: fehma f, opinjoni f Mingrelian: არზი (arzi) Mongolian: Cyrillic: санал (mn) (sanal) Norwegian: Bokmål: mening (no) m or f, synspunkt (no) n Occitan: opinion (oc) f Old English: wēna m Ottoman Turkish: بیلك (bilek), آرا (ara) Pannonian Rusyn: думанє n (dumanje), дума f (duma) (less common), мниниє n (mninije) (obsolete) Pashto: اند (ps) m (and), نظر (ps) m (nazar), عقيده (ps) f ('aqida) Persian: Dari: نَظَر (nazar), عَقِیدَه (aqīda), رَأْی (ra'y), فِکْر (fikr) Iranian Persian: نَظَر (nazar), عَقیدِه (aġide), رَأْی (ra'y), فِکْر (fekr) Polish: opinia (pl) f, zdanie (pl) n, pogląd (pl) m Portuguese: opinião (pt) f Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: părere (ro) f, opinie (ro) f Russian: мне́ние (ru) n (mnénije), взгляд (ru) m (vzgljad), воззре́ние (ru) n (vozzrénije) Scottish Gaelic: barail f, beachd m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏шље̄ње n, мне́ње n, на́зор m Roman: mȉšljēnje (sh) n, mnénje n, názor (sh) m Slovak: názor (sk) m Slovene: mnenje n Spanish: opinión (es) f, parecer (es) m, juicio (es) m, apreciación (es) f, concepto (es) m, consideración (es) f, sentencia (es) f Swahili: maoni (sw) Swedish: mening (sv) c, uppfattning (sv) c, omdöme (sv) n, tycke (sv) n, åsikt (sv) c Tagalog: opinyon (tl) Tajik: фикр (tg) (fikr), мулоҳиза (mulohiza), андеша (andeša), назар (tg) (nazar), ақида (aqida), рой (roy), раъй (ra'y) Tamil: கருத்து (ta) (karuttu) Tatar: фикер (tt) (fiker), уй (tt) (uy) Telugu: అభిప్రయము (abhiprayamu) Thai: ความเห็น (th) (kwaam-hěn), เสียง (th) (sǐiang) Tibetan: བསམ་ཚུལ (bsam tshul) Tok Pisin: tingting Turkish: görüş (tr), fikir (tr) Turkmen: pikir Ukrainian: ду́мка (uk) f (dúmka), по́гляд (uk) m (póhljad), здання́ n (zdannjá) Urdu: رائے f (rāe), خَیال m (xayāl), نَظَر (ur) m (nazar), عَقِیدَہ m ('aqīda), فِکْر f (fikr) Uyghur: پىكىر (pikir), ئوي (oy) Uzbek: fikr (uz), mulohaza (uz), nazar (uz), oʻy (uz) Vietnamese: ý kiến (vi) (意見), kiến giải (vi) (見解), ý (vi) (意) Volapük: kredül (vo) Welsh: barn (cy) Woiwurrung: (please verify) moonang-narruki Yiddish: מיינונג f (meynung) Zazaki: fıkır m, asatış c

EU: a judicial opinion by an Advocate General delivered to the European Court of Justice

Bulgarian: заключе́ние (bg) n (zaključénie) Czech: stanovisko (cs) n Dutch: conclusie (nl) f Estonian: ettepanek Finnish: ratkaisuehdotus (fi) French: conclusions (fr) f pl German: Schlussanträge pl Greek: προτάσεις (el) f (protáseis) Italian: conclusioni (it) f pl Norwegian: Bokmål: uttalelse m Portuguese: conclusão (pt) f Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) Slovak: návrhy m pl Spanish: conclusiones (es) f pl

See also

• fact

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.
   • 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, page 97:

     Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.

   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:

     But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon […], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother […]

Translations

opine — see opine

References

• “opinion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• opinion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “opinion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Esperanto

Noun

opinion

1. accusative singular of opinio

French

Etymology

From Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pi.njɔ̃/

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Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Derived terms

• délit d'opinion
• faiseur d'opinion
• opinion publique
• prisonnier d'opinion

Further reading

• “opinion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin opīniō.

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin opīniō, via French opinion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinioner, definite plural opinionene)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin opīniō, via French opinion.

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinionar, definite plural opinionane)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin opīniō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion

   Synonym: vejaire

Swedish

Noun

opinion c

1. (public) opinion (opinion of a (larger) group of people)

Declension

Declension of opinion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	opinion	opinions
	definite	opinionen	opinionens
plural	indefinite	opinioner	opinioners
	definite	opinionerna	opinionernas

Derived terms

• opinionsundersökning (“opinion poll”)

See also

• åsikt

References

• opinion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• opinion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• opinion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)