opineverb [ T ]
uk/əʊˈpaɪn/us/oʊˈpaɪn/formalto express an opinion:
[ + speech ] Power grows from the barrel of a gun, opined Mao.
[ + that ] Ernest Rutherford opined that his work on radioactive substances would be of little or no practical use.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and asking opinions
- apothegm
- ask
- come out
- couch
- day
- editorialize
- far
- for my money idiom
- pronounce
- put
- remark
- run
- run sth by sb
- screed
- soapbox
- sound off
- sounding board
- stake
- talk
- talk sth over
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