Word Finder - attitude

definition

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

example

The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude.

synonyms

• posture
• stance

definition

Disposition or state of mind.

example

Don't give me your negative attitude.

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The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.

example

The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.

synonyms

• orientation
• trim

definition

A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.

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To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.

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To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

She was tired of fighting, tired of his attitude, tired of everything.

He's put up with my attitude for a lot of years.

Still, his attitude was nothing shy of annoying.

The attitude of the child toward his books should be that of unconscious receptivity.

His attitude toward her did an about face so obvious that even Jonathan noticed.

She had to adopt a positive attitude.

My sister's attitude earned her the nickname of Sassy as a child.

By changing your perspective on the situation, it may be easier to have a positive attitude.

And this was the very attitude that became her best.

It was a change of attitude.

Her attitude wasn't as Alex had said, 'sour grapes', and he knew it.

The most serious difficulty with which Margaret had to deal arose from the attitude of the great nobles, and among these especially of William (the " Silent ") of Nassau, prince of Orange, Lamoral, count of Egmont, and Philip de Montmorency, count of Hoorn.

In his attitude towards the members of the Delian League Pericles likewise maintained a purely Athenian point of view.

In one point, however, - the attitude toward the ritual - the two men differ radically.

A further motive for their attitude was that Francis Joseph, unlike his predecessor, had not taken the oath to observe the Hungarian constitution, which it was the avowed object of Schwarzenberg to overthrow.

It rudely shocked the traditional attitude of scholarship towards the history of our race.

At his disappointed expression, she gave herself an attitude adjustment.

So you hired a housekeeper with a professional attitude.

The advent of Thiers, his attitude towards the petition of French bishops on behalf of the pope, the recall of Senard, the French minister at Florencewho had written to congratulate Victor Emmanuel on the capture of Romeand the instructions given to his successor, the comte de Choiseul, to absent himself from Italy at the moment of the kings official entry into the new capital (2nd July 1871), together with the haste displayed in appointing a French ambassador to the Holy See, rapidly cooled the cordiality of Franco-Italian relations, and reassured Bismarck on the score of any dangerous intimacy between the two governments.

In Europe on the whole the so-called pessimistic attitude was commoner in the Teutonic north than in the Mediterranean basin.

Such was his general attitude.

The sound of the heavy firing coming from the eastward convinced him of what had been gradually dawning on him - that with barely 30,000 men he was in the presence of the whole French army, whose attitude at this moment sufficiently indicated their determination to fight.

Cynthia ignored his I-told-you-so attitude.

As a precaution against an eventual French attempt to restore the temporal power, orders were hurriedly given to complete the defences of Rome, but in other respects the Italian government maintained its subservient attitude.

His attitude towards religion was, like that of Augustus, moderate and conservative.

This attitude is more widely represented in the next century.

It marks the transition, from the earlier tolerant attitude of Rome towards Christianity, to its later hostile attitude.

Later his attitude changed; and the protracted negotiations for a conference with Benedict XIII.

Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him.

You've always thought yourself soooo much better than the rest of us, and I'm sick of your attitude.

Notwithstanding the pontiffs bestowal of the apostolic benediction in articulo mortis upon Victor Emmanuel, the attitude of the Vatican had remained so inimical as to make it doubtful whether the conclave would be held in Rome.

Austria, indeed, might easily have been persuaded to ignore the Irredentist agitation, had not the equivocal attitude of Cairoli and Zanardelli cast doubt upon the sincerity of their regret.

The fall of Cairoli, and the formation of a second Depretis cabinet in 1878, brought no substantial change in the attitude of the government towards Irredentism, nor was the position improved by the return of Cairoli to power in the following July.

Lord Salisbury and Waddington at the instance of Bismarck, that, when convenient, France should occupy Tunisia, an agreement afterwn.rds confirmed (with a reserve as to the eventual attitude of Italy) in despatches exchanged in July and August 1878 between the Quai dOrsay and Downing Street.

Again Sella was called upon, but again the dog-in-the-manger policy of Depretis, Cairoli, Nicotera and Baccarini, in conjunction with the intolerant attitude of some extreme Conservatives, proved fatal to his endeavours.

In spite of his surname, and of his knowledge of the French language, his attitude towards foreigners attests that he was of English birth.

The territory of Tepic was detached.from the State of Jalisco in 1889 on account of the belligerent attitude of its population, chiefly composed of Indians.

Worse even than this was the system of wholesale expatriation adopted as a punishment for those who had shown a friendly attitude to the invading Serbian army.

The recent relations between the Indian government and Bhutan have been satisfactory; and during the troubles with Tibet in 1904 the attitude of the Bhutias was perfectly correct and friendly.

The other attitude, however, is that into which simple-minded Latin peasants actually lapse, as it is also that which characterizes other religions ancient or modern which use pictures or sculptures of gods, demons, men, brutes, or of particular parts and organs of the same.

With the latter attitude alone does the present article deal, and it may conveniently be called idolatry or image worship. For the history of the use of images in Christian worship see Iconoclasts.

From the point of view implied by such words as these, it is only necessary to recall the mental attitude of our grandfathers to appreciate in some measure the revolution in thought that has been wrought in this field within the last half-century, largely through the instrumentality of Oriental archaeology.

An illustration of his empirical tendency is found in his attitude to the Absolute and the Self.

There is in truth a something crude, unsympathetic, cynical in his mental attitude toward human nature, for which, even after the lapse of more than three centuries, we find it difficult to make allowance.

In 786 the entreaties of the pope and the hostile attitude of Arichis II., duke of Benevento, a son-in-law of Desiderius, called the king again into Italy.

Calvin's Defensio orthodoxae fidei (1554) (in French, Declaration pour maintenir, &c., 1 554), is the source of prevalent misconceptions as to Servetus's opinions, and attitude on his trial.

Such an attitude on the part of a Christian is not explicable before the closing years of Domitian; for, apart from Caligula, he was the first Roman emperor who consistently demanded divine honours.

The impeached ministers were, indeed, saved by the courage of the Chamber of Peers and the attitude of the National Guard; but their safety was bought at the price of Laffitte's popularity.

He tried to find some middle ground of reconciliation, and kept up his quiet work of informing England as to the opinions and conditions of the colonies, and of moderating the attitude of the colonies toward the home government; so that, as he said, he was accused in America of being too much an Englishman, and in England of being too much an American.

Towards the native population Wissmann's attitude was conciliatory, and under his rule the development of the resources of the country was pushed on.