Attitude

Noun

 * 1) The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
 * 2) Disposition or state of mind.
 * 3) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
 * 4)  The orientation of an aircraft or other vehicle relative to the horizon, direction of motion etc.

Verb

 * 1) To act with a strong attitude.

Adjectives for Attitude
firm; oblivious; listless; denunciatory; truculent; philanthropic; apathetic; scrupulous; unsisterly; composed; studied; absolutory; pathetic; impassive; civilized; rebellious; disconsolate; misanthropic; sensible; figurative; contemptuous; hostile; lukewarm; egotistical; endless; assiduous; subtle; depressive; mental; indolent; contemplative; motionless; orientated; threatening; ridiculous; forlorn; political; basic; insidious; exulting; swaying; slouching; stoical; bellicose; favorable; submissive; positive; procrastinating; fearless; lofty; charming; gallant; gorgeous; piquant; reverent; exalted; resolute; cool; unbending; courageous; affirmative;  adamantine;  uncompromising;  optimistic; light-hearted; complacent; cordial; self-sufficient; devil-may-care; overin-dulgent;   carefree;   depressed;   serious;morose; sound; healthy; sane; natural;  quiet; firm; eager; dignified; obliging;  respectful; sympathetic; jubilant; conciliatory; enlightened; cultivated; timid; tolerant; cautious; generous; perfunctory; arrogant; supercilious; self-centered; disdainful; unsympathetic; condescending; patronizing; censorious; lordly; imperious; deprecatory; antagonistic; pugnacious; alien; militant;  menacing; detestable; vengeful; devastating;  preposterous; catastrophic; treasonable; unfriendly; transient; impolite; resentful; flippant; drooped; unfortunate; irreconcilable; condemnatory; suspicious; callous; pessimistic; dejected; ironical; over-confident; balanced; objective; unconventional; sudden; mature; fluid; familiar; injured; pragmatic; necessary; passive; watchful; worshipful; free; set; easy; quiescent; menial; annoying; defensive; condoning; sentimental; typical; talkative;  realistic; various; restrained; destructive;  ignorant; moral; ostrich; nonchalant; depreciatory; historical; nervous; benevolent;  mutual; constrained; praiseworthy; infantile; graceful; belligerent; consistent; peculiar; suppliant; non-aggressive; defiant;  untrammeled; presumptuous; judicial; helpless; negligent; characteristic; unsatisfactory; unpleasant; heroic; charming; strut¬ting; comical; righteous; despondent; wholesome; unjust; hard-boiled; anachronistic;  unlike (pi); crouching; fashionable; abnormal; chivalrous; discreet; penitential; peering; hypocritical; business-like; suggestive; forensic; fundamental; rigid; habitual; bipolar; ungraceful; tender; non-sensical; erect; resigned; traditional; war-like; emotional; mute; romantic.

Verbs for Attitude
abandon—; acquire—; adopt—; advocate—; analyze—; assume—; behave in—;breed—; choose—; color—; condemn—; define—; denote—; deplore—; discount—; distort—; dominate—; dramatize—; embrace—; emphasize—; encourage—; exalt—; examine—; exhibit—; explain—; expound—; express—; fall into—; gesture—; give rise to—; hold—; illuminate—; implant—; imply—; inculcate—; indicate—; ingrain—; interpret—; justify—; maintain—; manage —; manifest—; modify—; move to—; obsess with—; overcome—; persist in—; pervert—; portray—; posture—; preserve—; project—; reflect—; regard—; relax—; repose in—of; resent—; revere—; reverse—;sense—; stand in—; study—; —antagonizes:—applies; -—implies; —menaces; —prejudices; —prevails; —reveals; —robs; —survives; —warns.

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

Derived terms

 * attitude-y
 * attitudinal

Related terms

 * apt
 * aptness
 * aptitude