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opinion | inconducive |

As a noun opinion

is opinion.

As an adjective inconducive is

not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.

opinion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
    • I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
    In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
    Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
    Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
  • The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  • * 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
    • I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
  • * South
    • Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
  • (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  • * 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
    • Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
  • * Milton
    • This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
  • (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 5:
    • Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
  • The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  • (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

    • Derived terms

    * advisory opinion * be of the opinion * in my humble opinion/IMHO * in my opinion * in one's opinion * opinion poll * public opinion * scientific opinion * second opinion

    Related terms

    * opination * opine * opinionated

    See also

    * fact

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
  • * 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

    • Statistics

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    inconducive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.
  • * 1945 , " Freedom from Slums," The Virgin Islands Daily News , 6 Apr., p. 3 (retrieved 20 Aug. 2010):
    • Whole families are often obliged to live in one—or two—room apartments, inconducive either to good morals or good health.
  • * 1971 , " Male chauvinism," Ottawa Citizen , 31 March, p. 5 (retrieved 20 Aug. 2010):
    • The dinner conversation was becoming inconducive to smooth digestion.
  • * 2008 , Eric Lai, " Microsoft tries to steer a more agile course on software development," Computerworld , 26 Feb. (retrieved 20 Aug. 2010):
    • But the sheer size of the company's programming workforce, and the number, heft and widespread popularity of its products, conspire to create an environment that can be inconducive to efficient coding.

    Synonyms

    * unconducive