Word Meanings - SELF-OPINION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

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• COLLIERY
  1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. Johnson.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• OVERWEENING
  Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. -- O`ver*ween"ingly, adv. Milton. -- O`ver*ween"ing*ness, n. Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• OVERWEENER
  One who overweens. The conceits of warmed or overweening brain. Locke.
• OVERWEEN
  To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• OPINIONED
  Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• COLLIER
  1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. 2. A vessel employed in the coal trade.
• OVERESTIMATE
  To estimate too highly; to overvalue.
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• PREOPINION
  Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERESTIMATE
  To set to
• SELF-OPINIONED
  Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.
• DISOPINION
  Want or difference of belief; disbelief. Bp. Reynolds.
• MISOPINION
  Wrong opinion.