attitude
noun/ˈætɪtuːd/
Слово англійською: attitude
Переклад attitude українською: пози́ція (то́чка зо́ру)
Детальний опис
- [countable] the way that you think and feel about somebody/something; the way that you behave towards somebody/something that shows how you think and feel
- attitude towards somebody/something These societies have to change their attitudes towards women.
- the government’s attitude towards single parents
- to have a positive/negative attitude towards somebody/something
- attitude to somebody/something changes in public attitudes to marriage
- attitude about something social attitudes about education
- attitude on something changing attitudes on issues such as mental health
- Youth is simply an attitude of mind.
- If you want to pass your exams you'd better change your attitude!
- If they can adopt that kind of attitude then the future looks very promising.
- You're taking a pretty selfish attitude over this, aren't you?
Wordfinder- action
- approach
- attitude
- behaviour
- conform
- eccentric
- etiquette
- habit
- manners
- morality
- [uncountable] confident, sometimes aggressive behaviour that shows you do not care about other people’s opinions and that you want to do things in an individual way
- Don't give me any attitude!
- with attitude a band with attitude
- [countable] (formal) a position of the body
- in an attitude of something Her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer.
Word Originlate 17th cent. (denoting the placing or posture of a figure in art): from French, from Italian attitudine ‘fitness, posture’, from late Latin aptitudo, from aptus ‘fit’.
Idioms
strike a pose/an attitude
- to hold your body in a particular way to create a particular impression
- to strike a dramatic pose
- (figurative) He strikes an attitude of bravery and lonely defiance.