单词 | opinion |
释义 | opin·ion I. 1. a. < why ask my opinion if you have already decided > b. (1) < I have no great opinion of his work > (2) obsolete 2. a. < a man of rigid opinions > b. < opinion is swinging in his favor > c. < this is only my opinion of course > 3. a. < decided to obtain a medical opinion of the case > b. 4. obsolete 5. obsolete 6. Platonism Synonyms: < opposing political opinions > < a man of strong likes and dislikes but few opinions > < a dissenting opinion handed down by a Supreme Court judge > < to prefer to deal in facts rather than opinions > view is an opinion or set of opinions usually more or less colored by individual feeling, sentiment, or bias < the political views of the opposing party > < expressed her views on the role of education in the integration of home and community life — Current Biography > < to air one's views > belief differs from view or opinion in implying a conclusion or set of interrelated conclusions not necessarily formulated by the individual but often constituting a dogma, doctrine, or proposition already formulated prior to the individual's acceptance or adoption of it; it emphasizes the individual's assent to the conclusion or his assurance of its truth < religious beliefs > < old customs and old beliefs — Wilfrid Goatman > < to hold the belief that man has certain inalienable rights > conviction is a belief held strongly because one has no doubts about its truth < the conviction that where one was born and lives is the best place in the world — E.L.Ullman > < along with that faith have lost the old … conviction that most people are good and that evil is merely an accident — Malcolm Cowley > < a man of many positive convictions > persuasion suggests a belief or set of beliefs held strongly, often predominantly though by no means exclusively on nonlogical or nonrational grounds < Christians of all persuasions — Current Biography > < the childish persuasion that we have the only rational way of doing things — Gustave Weigel > < an artist who is not of the contemporary persuasion — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > sentiment, rather infrequent today in this sense, suggests a more or less settled opinion, often involving feelings or emotions < a speech in which he expressed an apparent reversal of his known conservative sentiments — A.L.Funk > < to express strong sentiments on a political issue > • - be of the opinion II. chiefly dialect |
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