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
Instead of denying or neglecting it, or whatever attitude we had in the past, it’s time we all get together and start working on this very seriously.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead. | James Temple | September 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWithout much thought, I carried this attitude over into my work.
What if Your Company Had No Rules? (Bonus Episode) | Maria Konnikova | September 12, 2020 | FreakonomicsThe more knowledge she gained regarding the object, the more her attitude towards it was reshaped.
It has taught me that we, ourselves, can choose our attitude every day.
Since then, I took a completely different attitude to management.
The advice that helped this year’s 40 under 40 find their own path | kdunn6 | September 3, 2020 | Fortune
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 BEASTThe 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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