opinion — OET

opinion

noun

she did not share her husband's opinion:

belief, judgement, thought(s), school of thought, thinking, way of thinking, mind, point of view, view, viewpoint, outlook, angle, slant, side, attitude, stance, perspective, position, standpoint;

theory, tenet, conclusion, verdict, estimation, thesis, hypothesis, feeling, sentiment, impression, reflections, idea, notion, assumption, speculation, conception, conviction, contention, persuasion, creed, dogma.

□ a matter of opinion

whether this is desirable or not is a matter of opinion:

open to question, a debatable point, debatable, open to debate, a moot point, open to/for discussion, up to the individual.

□ be of the opinion

I'm of the opinion that this is not necessary:

believe, think, consider, maintain, imagine, be of the view, reckon, guess, estimate, conjecture, fancy, suspect, feel, have a/the feeling, assume, presume, take it, suppose, expect, gather;

contend, put forward, be convinced, be of the conviction, reason, deduce, conclude, theorize, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis;

North American, informal allow;

formal opine;

archaic ween.

□ in my opinion

we have very little choice, in my opinion:

as I see it, in my view, to my mind, (according) to my way of thinking, from my standpoint, personally, in my estimation, in my judgement, in my book, for my money, if you ask me.

opinion Oxford Dictionary of English