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attitude

at·ti·tude
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [at-i-tood, -tyood]
    • /ˈæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/
    • /ˈætɪtjuːd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [at-i-tood, -tyood]
    • /ˈæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/

Definitions of attitude word

  • variable noun attitude Your attitude to something is the way that you think and feel about it, especially when this shows in the way you behave. 3
  • uncountable noun attitude If you refer to someone as a person with attitude, you mean that they have a striking and individual style of behaviour, especially a forceful or aggressive one. 3
  • noun attitude the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way 3
  • noun attitude a theatrical pose created for effect (esp in the phrase strike an attitude) 3
  • noun attitude a position of the body indicating mood or emotion 3
  • noun attitude a hostile manner 3

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Origin of attitude

First appearance:

before 1660
One of the 46% oldest English words
1660-70; < French < Italian attitudine < Late Latin aptitūdini- (stem of aptitūdō) aptitude

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Attitude

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

attitude popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

attitude usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for attitude

noun attitude

  • demeanor — Your demeanor is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
  • bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
  • perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • point of view — a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: from the point of view of a doctor.
  • mood — Grammar. a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in many languages, and that is typically used to indicate the syntactic relation of the clause in which the verb occurs to other clauses in the sentence, or the attitude of the speaker toward what he or she is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy. a set of syntactic devices in some languages that is similar to this set in function or meaning, involving the use of auxiliary words, as can, may, might. any of the categories of these sets: the Latin indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.

Antonyms for attitude

noun attitude

  • fairness — the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness: I have to admit, in all fairness, that she would only be paid for part of the work.

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