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Definition of opine :
To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
Synonyms:
view, cypher, calculate, infer, plain, approximate, hypothecate, say, strike up, air, call back, count on, remember, hold, express, envisage, be of the opinion, guess, mean, animadvert, weigh in, believe, cerebrate, bet, kick, retrieve, deem, sound off, judge, complain, kvetch, cipher, count, theorise, recollect, hypothesise, compute, reckon, speak out, depend, hazard, note, regard, cogitate, pronounce on, work out, gauge, remark, articulate, call up, forecast, see, conjecture, figure, look, speak up, recall, estimate, speculate, comment, allow, presuppose, intend, state, formulate, opinion, venture, hypothesize, editorialize, pretend, conceive of, quetch
imagine (part of speech: verb)
design, imagine, conceive, plan, reflect, invent, daydream, ideate, theorize, consider, envision, observe, suppose, create, perceive, think, contemplate, brainstorm, fantasize
Usage examples:
- Whereupon Maryann would deny that pains had anything to do with it, and Jemima would opine that it was, " koorious, to say the least of it." - "Sunk at Sea", R.M. Ballantyne.
- Do you opine that Othello smothered the princes in the Tower? - "A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest", Amelia B. Edwards.
- I opine, said Upton, calmly, that the 'prestige' of the gentleman consists in his belonging to an 'order. - "The Fortunes Of Glencore", Charles James Lever.