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attitude
noun
1 attitude
A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways:
— He had the attitude that work was fun.
synonym: mental attitude.
Dutch: attitude, gedraging, gedragslijn, habitus, houding, opstelling
Polish: postawa
2 attitude
The arrangement of the body and its limbs:
— He assumed an attitude of surrender.
synonyms: position, posture.
Roget 240:
form,
figure,
shape;
conformation,
configuration;
make,
formation,
frame,
construction,
cut,
set,
build,
trim,
cut of one's jib;
stamp,
type,
cast,
mold;
fashion;
contour
etc.
(outline)
230;
structure
etc.
329;
plasmature†.
feature,
lineament,
turn;
phase
etc.
(aspect)
448;
posture,
attitude,
pose.
[Science of form]
morphism.
[Similarity of form]
isomorphism.
forming
etc.
v.;
formation,
figuration,
efformation†;
sculpture;
plasmation†.
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Roget 8:
circumstance,
situation,
phase,
position,
posture,
attitude,
place,
point;
terms;
regime;
footing,
standing,
status.
occasion,
juncture,
conjunctive;
contingency
etc.
(event)
151.
predicament;
emergence,
emergency;
exigency,
crisis,
pinch,
pass,
push;
occurrence;
turning point.
bearings,
how the land lies.
surroundings,
context,
environment
232;
location
184.
contingency,
dependence
(uncertainty)
475;
causation
153,
attribution
155.
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Roget 183:
situation,
position,
locality,
locale,
status,
latitude and longitude;
footing,
standing,
standpoint,
post;
stage;
aspect,
attitude,
posture,
pose.
environment,
surroundings
(location)
184;
circumjacence
etc.
227†.
place,
site,
station,
seat,
venue,
whereabouts;
ground;
bearings
etc.
(direction)
278;
spot
etc.
(limited space)
182.
topography,
geography,
chorography†;
map
etc.
554.
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Dutch: houding, pose, positie, stand
Polish: układ ciała, pozycja, poza
3 attitude
A theatrical pose created for effect.
4 attitude
Position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion).
Dutch: humeur
Moby thesaurus: air, approach, aspect, assumption, azimuth, bearing, bearings, bent, bias, carriage, celestial navigation, climate of opinion, color, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, dead reckoning, demeanor, disposition, estimate, estimation, ethos, exposure, eye, feeling, fix, frontage, general belief, idea, impression, inclination, judgment, lay, leaning, lie, lights, line of position, mind, mystique, notion, observation, opinion, orientation, personal judgment, pilotage, point of view, popular belief, port, pose, position, position line, posture, predilection, prejudice, prepossession, presence, presumption, prevailing belief, public belief, public opinion, radio bearing, reaction, sentiment, set, sight, stance, stand, tendency, theory, thinking, thought, view, viewpoint, way of thinking ... show more.
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