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posture

noun · verb

Simple meaning

One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

Pronunciation

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pahscher

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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈpɑstʃɚ

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

  1. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

  2. The way a person holds and positions their body.

  3. Characteristic way of bearing one's body

  4. A situation or condition.

verb

  1. intransitive

    To put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired

  2. transitive

    To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

  3. intransitive

    To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
C1 · Advanced
Frequency
Moderately Common
Typical Use
Neutral / general English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

Used this way, posture is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in government or politics contexts.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Where it naturally appears

  • Government/politics

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military posturesitting posturegood postureupright postureerect posturebody posturedefensive posturepoor posture

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Word Family

Related forms, grouped by how they connect.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

  • posturingnounInflected form

    Adopting a vain conceited posture.

Word family

Words built from the same root.

  • posturaladjectiveDerived adjective

    Related to One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • change postureverbCompound term

    Undergo a change in bodily posture.

  • military posturenounCompound term

    Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war.

More about this wordSynonyms, forms, origin

Synonyms

noun

Sense: one's attitude or the social

carriageposeattitude

verb

Sense: to put one's body into a posture

attitudesitmodel

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