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attitude

[ at-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind:

    a negative attitude; group attitudes.

  2. position or posture of the body appropriate to or expressive of an action, emotion, etc.:

    a threatening attitude; a relaxed attitude.

  3. Aeronautics. the inclination of the three principal axes of an aircraft relative to the wind, to the ground, etc.
  4. Ballet. a pose in which the dancer stands on one leg, the other bent behind.


attitude

/ ˈætɪˌtjuːd /

noun

  1. the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way
  2. a theatrical pose created for effect (esp in the phrase strike an attitude )
  3. a position of the body indicating mood or emotion
  4. informal.
    a hostile manner

    don't give me attitude, my girl

  5. the orientation of an aircraft's axes in relation to some plane, esp the horizontal See also axis 1
  6. the orientation of a spacecraft in relation to its direction of motion
  7. ballet a classical position in which the body is upright and one leg raised and bent behind
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌattiˈtudinal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • at·ti·tu·di·nal [at-i-, tood, -n-l, -, tyood, -], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of attitude1

First recorded in 1660–70; from French, from Italian attitudine, from Late Latin aptitūdini- (stem of aptitūdō ); aptitude
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Word History and Origins

Origin of attitude1

C17: from French, from Italian attitudine disposition, from Late Latin aptitūdō fitness, from Latin aptus apt
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Example Sentences

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.

Without much thought, I carried this attitude over into my work.

The 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.

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Since then, I took a completely different attitude to management.

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I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.

From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.

Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.

In a way, this is worse than the racism of white supremacists, since this is thought to be an honorable attitude.

With his anachronistic attitude toward the biblical story, Bale is just following the lead of his director.

The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.

So much for the attitude of the various schools of religious thought towards the Bible.

Her eyes were blazing with triumph, yet her lips curved with contempt at the attitude of her trembling father.

His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.

This tendency to take art-representations for realities reappears even in the mental attitude of a child towards his stories.

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