opine

Other forms of opine

past tense

opined·

present participle

opining·

third person

opines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about opine

What does opine mean?

opine means "express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opine?

opine has 2 syllables: o-pine. The stress falls on "pine". In IPA it is /oʊˈpaɪn/.

What is another word for opine?

Close synonyms include speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off, think. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is opine a common word?

opine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with opine?

6 words rhyme with opine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.