Attitude

Definition: Attitude

Attitude

Noun

1. 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".

2. Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender".

3. A theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude".

4. Position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Attitude \At"ti*tude\, noun. [Italian attitudine, Late Latin expression aptitudo, from the Latin expression aptus suited, fitted: compare to the French expression attitude. Compare to Aptitude.]. (references)

Computing

Math

Mining

Physics

Post & Telecom

Public Administration

Space

Transportation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Attitude

Circumstance

Noun: circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.

Form

Feature, lineament, turn; phase; (aspect); posture,feature, lineament, turn; phase; (aspect); posture, attitude, pose.

Situation

Noun: situation, position, locality, locale, status, footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose.

Crosswords: Attitude

French (attitude, manner, outlook, pose, posture, set).

I don't need your attitude. I have one of my own. (references; author: unknown)

WARNING: I have an attitude, and I know how to use it. (references; author: unknown)

Attitude might not catch fish, but it helps when you don't. (references; author: unknown)

A good way to change somebody's attitude is to change your own. (references; author: unknown)

The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without. (references; author: unknown)

Potter's Wheel (performing artist: Freyda & Accoustic Attitude)

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Iron Cross Attitude Simulator With Pilot. Credit: NASA.

Working together for a three-point sextant fix Note horizontal attitude of sextants. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Is this your attitude to contraception?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

His attitude (with apologies to the ostrich). Credit: Library of Congress.

Close view of dhyani Buddha figure seated in meditative attitude, Taxila, Rawalpindi district, Punjab, Pakistan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Signboards along Georgia highway indicating attitude and anxiety of manufacturers and mill owners. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three of Uncle Sam's Pets. We get rations every 29 days. Our pulse is good. Expressive medium. We put in 60 minutes each hour in our present attitude. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He ventured to raise his eyes, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.

My God, complained Arthur, "you're talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven't even had your planet demolished today.

Everything that he caught a glimpse of had an attitude of terror

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Health

Above all, CF patients and their families should keep a positive attitude. (references)

For example, they do relaxation exercises, try to reduce stress, and adopt a positive mental attitude. (references)

Your attitude, your expectations, and how well you cope with your condition can all influence your well-being. (references)

Business

That attitude is now changing, however. (references)

Low pay also increases a lax attitude toward corruption. (references)

Defendants who fail to show the correct attitude by confessing their crimes are typically sentenced more harshly. (references)

Children

Russia

Being a child with disabilities still is a serious social stigma in the country, an attitude that profoundly influences how institutionalized children are treated. (references)

Japan

In previous years, both the Government and society in general appeared to take a lenient attitude toward teenage prostitution and dating for money (which may or may not have involved sexual activity). (references)

Civil Liberties

Panama

In September an OAS report on the status of freedom of speech in the hemisphere emphasized the repressive attitude of the country's judicial system toward the media. (references)

Discrimination

Afghanistan

Its severity varied from area to area, depending on the local leadership's attitude toward education for girls and employment for women and on local attitudes. (references)

Kazakhstan

No one may be subjected to any discrimination for reasons of origin, social position, occupation, property status, sex, race, nationality, language, attitude to religion, convictions, place of residence, or any other circumstances;" however, the Government does not enforce this provision effectively on a consistent basis. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

A wait and see attitude prevails. (references)

Human Rights

China

Traditionally, defendants who failed to show the correct attitude by confessing their crimes received harsher sentences. (references)

Poland

Members of the foundation report that the Government displays a generally positive and helpful attitude towards human rights investigations. (references)

Guyana

Many justice authorities and human rights activists say that due to rising crime and pressure from urban businesses, which are often the targets of criminals, the Government has taken a lax attitude toward investigation of alleged police abuses. (references)

Minorities

Turkmenistan

The societal attitude toward conversion from Islam to any other religion generally is surprise, and often disapproval. (references)

Latvia

Ecumenism still is a new concept in the country, and traditional religions have adopted a distinctly reserved attitude towards the concept. (references)

Syria

The Government generally permits national and ethnic minorities to conduct traditional, religious, and cultural activities; however, the Government's attitude toward the Kurdish minority is a significant exception to this policy. (references)

Political Economy

France

Disarray among center-right parties, the lack of a clearly defined alternative to the center-left policies of the current government, and unanswered questions about Chirac's role in scandals dating back several years limit the opposition's and Chirac's attitude. (references)

Trade

Korea

This attitude has changed, particularly since the spectacular mid-1999 collapse of Daewoo Group, at that time Korea's second-largest chaebol. (references)

Finland

Finland's attitude towards biotechnology is markedly more open than in many other EU Member States and Embassy Helsinki has been working actively with Finnish partners to distribute accurate and scientific information on this issue. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Casual dress may convey a casual attitude, especially to European-trained Nigerians. (references)

Czech Rep

Business partners do not usually call each other by their first names, and Czechs may be offended if their foreign visitors address them by their first names without first being invited to do so. It may take several meetings to establish a sense of rapport and a more relaxed attitude. (references)

Women

Bulgaria

NGO observers report a generally improved public attitude toward issues of violence against women in the last few years. (references)

Worker Rights

Hong Kong

The Department of Labor takes a positive attitude towards the participation of trade unions in such dispute negotiations. (references)

Thailand

Also, police officers do not view antitrafficking as a path to advancement because their superiors do not emphasize it. Narcotics and serious crime are the preferred career concentrations, while the attitude that trafficking also qualifies as serious crime is only slowly developing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "attitude": adverse attitude ♦ aggressive attitude ♦ aircraft attitude ♦ assume a humble attitude ♦ attitude control ♦ attitude control maneuver ♦ attitude control system ♦ attitude gyro ♦ attitude of affairs ♦ Attitude of Health Personnel ♦ attitude of mind ♦ Attitude to Computers ♦ Attitude to Death ♦ Attitude to Health ♦ bad attitude ♦ change of attitude ♦ consumer attitude ♦ defensive attitude ♦ expectant attitude ♦ favorable attitude ♦ favourable attitude ♦ have an attitude toward ♦ intransigent attitude ♦ manly attitude ♦ mental attitude ♦ negative attitude ♦ normal ride attitude ♦ objective attitude ♦ passive attitude ♦ pitch attitude ♦ strike an attitude ♦ superior attitude ♦ To strike an attitude ♦ unfriendly attitude. Additional references.

Beginning with "attitude": attitude-brandishing, attitude-change, attitude-holder, attitude-holders, attitude-scaling, attitude-training.

Ending with "attitude": columnist-with-attitude, job-attitude, life-attitude.

Afrikaans

houding (behaviour, conduct, deportment, position). (various references)

Albanian

qëndrim (bearing, carriage, concernment, continuance, deportment, footing, halt, indwelling, mien, notch, poise, port, pose, posture, stand, stay, stop, waiting), pozicion (fix, lay, location, notch, pose, position, ranking, situation, stance, stand), pozë (pose, posturing, still, time exposure, view). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موقف (garage, halt, park, parking lot, position, shutoff, situation, stance, stand, station, stop, taxi stand), ‏وضع جسماني, ‏سلوك (action, antics, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, performance, walk), ‏طريقة (art, channel, fashion, game, method, mode, procedure, process, sort, style, styling, system, tactic, wise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стойка (bipod, carriage, crutch, deportment, holder, leg, pier, pillar, port, post, posture, rack, rest, riser, set, stand, tree), становище (outlook, position, posture, stand, standpoint), гледище (position, sentiment, standpoint, view, viewpoint), отношение (bearing, concern, contact, count, deal, dealing, feeling, play, posture, proportion, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, respect, sentiment, stance, treatment), поза (act, pose, posture, set). (various references)

Chinese 

态度 (Attitudinal, Demeanor), 態度 (approach, bearing, manner), 態 , 姿態 (posture, stance). (various references)

Czech

postoj (poise, port, pose, position, stance, stand), přístup (access, accession, admission, admittance, approach, entry, ingress, stance). (various references)

Danish

holdning (carriage). (various references)

Dutch

houding (behaviour, conduct, deportment, position). (various references)

Esperanto

sinteno. (various references)

Faeroese

hugsunarháttur, hugburður. (various references)

Farsi 

هیلت (Astronomy, Commission, Configuration, Corps, Hue, Panel, Physique, Staff), گرایش (Ism, Propensity, Tendency), حالت (Case, Condition, Estate, Grain, If, Mood, Pose, Posture, Predicament, Self, Situation, Speed, Stance, State, Status, Temper, Temperament, Trim, Vein), طرزبرخورد (Front), روش ورفتار. (various references)

Finnish

asenne. (various references)

French

attitude, orientation. (various references)

German

einstellung (abandonment, accommodation, adjustment, aiming, alignment, cessation, discontinuation, employment, engagement, enlistment, focusing, justification, modulation, orientation, outlook, recruiting, recruitment, setting, stance, stand, stopping, tuning), haltung (bearing, composure, demeanor, deportment, manner, owning, poise, pose, position, posture, presence, set, stance, style), gesinnung (basic convictions, cast of mind, contention, ethos, opinion, views, way of thinking), Standpunkt (ground, point of view, position, stand, standpoind, standpoint, vantage point, viewpoint). (various references)

Greek 

στάση (bearing, bus stop, insurgence, insurgency, mutiny, pose, posture, rebellion, revolt, riot, sedition, stance, stand, standing, standstill, stasis, stop, stopover). (various references)

Hebrew 

יחס (bearing, connection, proportion, ratio, relation, relation ship, relationship, treatment), עמדה (domicile, position, posture, stance, stand, standing, standing place, station, status), גישה (access, approach). (various references)

Hungarian

póz (frills, poise, pose, posture, stance), magatartás (behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, countenance, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, front, habit, mien). (various references)

Icelandic

afstaða. (various references)

Indonesian

menyikapi (behave), gelagat (habit, indication, symptom). (various references)

Italian

portamento (bearing, carriage, deportment, poise), atteggiamento (deportment, pose, posture), assetto (arrangement, disposition, order). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

素振り (bearing, behavior, manner, thrusting asword downward from a starting position above one's head), 態度　 (manner), 態度 (manner), 態勢　 (conditions, preparations), 態勢 (conditions, preparations), 気組み (preparedness), 出方 (move, theater usher), 出様 (measures, move), 姿勢　 (posture), 姿勢 (posture), 動向 (movement, tendency, trend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいど (magnanimity, manner), たいせい (accomplishment, attainment of greatness or success, blackish blue, completion, conditions, current thought, decay, decline, general trend, gestation, great sage, ones declining fortunes, one's declining fortunes, opposing pairs, order, organization, posture, preparations, resistance, set-up, sovereign power, stance, structure, system, the Occident, the reins of government, the West), きぐみ (preparedness, wooden framework), そぶり (bearing, behavior, manner), しせい (administration, city conditions, devotion, female, four tones, government, great poet, life and death, municipal census, municipal government, municipal organization, municipality, one's nature or disposition, posture, private, sincerity, statesmanship, tattoo, the four castes, the four great sages, the street, the town), どうこう (accompanying, copper ore, movement, pupil, pupillary, same school, similar tastes, tendency, travelling together, trend), でかた (move, theater usher), でよう (measures, move). (various references)

Korean 

태도 (Attitudinal). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrkey (appearance, bear, behave, behaviour, birth, carry, carrying, comportment, conduction, convey, conveyance, endure, gestation, give birth, haulage, supply; conductance, support, sustain, tide, transport, yield), shassoo (erection, halt; keeping, hold, hold out, hold up, rampant, represent, stance, stand, standing, stop, tumescence). (various references)

Norwegian

holdning. (various references)

Papiamen

aktitut. (various references)

Pig Latin

attitudeay.(various references)

Portuguese

atitude (bearing, behavior, behaviour, emplacement, expression, gait, garb, gesture, mien, move, plant, poise, position, presence, set), postura (emplacement, lay, laying, pose, position, stance). (various references)

Romanian

atitudine (friendliness, pose, position, stance, standing, station), sentimente (heart), poziţie (bearing, hang, line up, locality, locus, place, position, set, setting, site, situation, stand, standing, standpoint, view), ţinutã (attire, bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, clothing, conduct, deportment, figure, gait, garb, hang, manner, mien, posture, rig, set, suit, trim, uniform). (various references)

Russian 

отношение (bearing, mindset, quotient, rate, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, respect). (various references)

Scottish

stìg (a skulking or abject look or attitude), grùig (a drooping attitude), crùban (crouching, crouching attitude : 'na chrùban, the crab-fish), corra-biod (an attitude of readiness to start, nm. attitude of readiness to start). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stav (movement, paragraph, pose, posture, setup, stance, stand), stanovište (angle, standpoint, view point, viewpoint), držanje (bearing, carriage, hold, holding, manner, mien, observance, occupancy, pose, posture, setup). (various references)

Spanish

actitud (outlook, pose, view), postura (bid, bidding, pose, position, posture, stance, stand), posición (fix, footing, lie, lieu, location, perch, place, point, position, rank, stance, stand, standing, status). (various references)

Swedish

hållning (bearing, carriage, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, firmness, front, mien, posture, presence, set), inställning (adjustment, approach, configuration, feeling, outlook, posture, preference, tuning), attityd (attitudes, posture). (various references)

Thai

ทัศนคติ, ลักษณะท่าทาง (mien). (various references)

Turkish

tutum (behavior, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, manner, Providence, sparingness), tavır (address, air, aspect, behavior, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, face, form, manner, mien, port, pose, posture, presence, put on, tone), poz (copy, exposure, pose, posture, time exposure), konum (configuration, lay, lie, location, position, site, situation, standing, state, station, status), fikir (advice, belief, cogitation, conceit, concept, conception, estimation, hint, idea, ideo-, impression, inspiration, mind, notion, opinion, position, sentiments, suggestion, thinking, think-so, thought, verdict, view, voice), durum (ball game, case, circumstance, condition, conditions, conjuncture, context, estate, event, fact, fettle, footing, instance, lay, lie, occasion, pass, plight, position, posture, repair, score, set, set up, shape, showing, situation, situs, stance, stand, state, state of affairs, status, trim, way), duruş (carriage, hang, poise, port, pose, position, posture, stance, stand), davranış (act, action, bearing, behavior, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, form, manner, proceeding, stroke, treatment, turn, way), düşünce (apprehension, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice). (various references)

Turkmen 

garaяyю (look, opinion). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставлення (behavior, behaviour, position, side, treatment), постава (poise, port, posture, presence, set up), поза (above, beyond, outside, plant, playacting, pose, position, posture, stance), позиція (position, post, stance). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thái độ (behaviour, demeanour, deportment, manner), quan điểm tư thế, dáng dấp (set), điệu bộ (affected, affectedly, gesture, mincing, theatrical). (various references)

Welsh

agwedd (aspect, form), ystum (bend, form, grimaces, posture), osgo (air, inclination, slant, slope). (various references)

aptus. (various references)

daenyå. (various references)

attitudine. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attitude": attitudes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Attitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: additude, aititude, apttitude, atittude, atitude, attidude, attitide, attitiude, attittude, attitued, attitute, attiude. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dautie, tatted, tattie, tauted, tutted.

-3 letters: adieu, audit, tutti.

-4 letters: adit, aide, date, daut, diet, dita, dite, duet, duit, edit, etui, idea, tate, taut, teat, tide, tied.

-5 letters: aid, ait, ate, att, die, dit, due, dui, eat, eau, eta, tad, tae, tat, tau, tea, ted, tet, tie, tui, tut, uta.

+1 letter: attitudes.

+2 letters: attributed, triturated.

+3 letters: antistudent, quantitated.

+4 letters: attitudinise, attitudinize, reattributed, unattributed.

+5 letters: attitudinised, attitudinises, attitudinized, attitudinizes, authenticated, misattributed, multitalented, substantiated.