attitude
manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes.
position or posture of the body appropriate to or expressive of an action, emotion, etc.: a threatening attitude; a relaxed attitude.
Aeronautics. the inclination of the three principal axes of an aircraft relative to the wind, to the ground, etc.
Ballet. a pose in which the dancer stands on one leg, the other bent behind.
Origin of attitude
1synonym study For attitude
Other words from attitude
- at·ti·tu·di·nal [at-i-tood-n-l, -tyood-], /ˌæt ɪˈtud n l, -ˈtyud-/, adjective
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How to use attitude in a sentence
I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical | Stereo Williams | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAlexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern | Lloyd Green | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a way, this is worse than the racism of white supremacists, since this is thought to be an honorable attitude.
Dear White People: Well-Meaning Paternalism Is Still Racist | Chloé Valdary | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith his anachronistic attitude toward the biblical story, Bale is just following the lead of his director.
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist | Candida Moss, Joel Baden | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsSo much for the attitude of the various schools of religious thought towards the Bible.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordHer eyes were blazing with triumph, yet her lips curved with contempt at the attitude of her trembling father.
The Red Year | Louis TracyHis attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThis tendency to take art-representations for realities reappears even in the mental attitude of a child towards his stories.
Children's Ways | James Sully
British Dictionary definitions for attitude
/ (ˈætɪˌtjuːd) /
the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way
a theatrical pose created for effect (esp in the phrase strike an attitude)
a position of the body indicating mood or emotion
informal a hostile manner: don't give me attitude, my girl
the orientation of an aircraft's axes in relation to some plane, esp the horizontal: See also axis 1 (def. 1)
the orientation of a spacecraft in relation to its direction of motion
ballet a classical position in which the body is upright and one leg raised and bent behind
Origin of attitude
1Derived forms of attitude
- attitudinal, adjective
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