opine
verb
[ ə(ʊ)ˈpʌɪn ]
• hold and state as one's opinion.
• "‘The man is a genius,’ he opined"
Similar:
suggest,
submit,
advance,
propose,
venture,
volunteer,
put forward,
moot,
propound,
posit,
air,
hazard,
say,
declare,
observe,
comment,
remark,
think,
believe,
consider,
maintain,
imagine,
be of the view,
be of the opinion,
reckon,
guess,
estimate,
conjecture,
fancy,
suspect,
feel,
have a/the feeling,
assume,
presume,
take it,
suppose,
expect,
gather,
contend,
be convinced,
be of the conviction,
reason,
deduce,
conclude,
theorize,
hypothesize,
take as a hypothesis,
allow,
ween,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin opinari ‘think, believe’.
