attitude
- noun
- /ˈætɪˌtjud/
- Her positive attitude towards challenges helped her succeed in her career.
- behavior and attitudes
- a positive attitude
- student attitudes
It's about what is your attitude to life?
- It's about what is your attitude to life?
- Attitude isn't everything, but attitude is the main thing
- They represent a different attitude, a different mindset.
- And I didn't come back with an attitude or anger or judgment.
- So our values and our attitudes can and do change.
- It's like you let problems dictate your attitude so much.
- What is Gregory's attitude towards these sons of Clovis?
- If you change your attitude, you change your altitude.
- He always had a great mentality towards football, great attitude, strong.
- So you say, OK, I trust this attitude more than I do this one.
Examples
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Every scholar should aspire to that attitude and to that ideal.
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We may not take quite the same attitude.
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It's your attitude that is keeping you stuck.
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Would you say that you have an attitude of giving to others?
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But the beauty of our attitude is that we can change it.
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If you change your attitude, you change your altitude.
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Parents should also foster the development of positive attitudes toward reading in their children.
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It's about cultivating the attitude of being present.
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Men and women tend to hold different attitudes toward the size and scope of government.
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It may surprise you to know that Anna's attitude to the new Germany is changing.
Synonyms
A usual way of thinking that affects how a person acts
A general feeling or expectation about the future
A person's set of beliefs or preferences that guide their actions
A person's usual mood or natural way of behaving
A way of thinking and feeling that affects how you act
Antonyms
Compounds
A way of thinking that makes you feel better than others and makes you treat them as less important
- Offensive
A belief or feeling that people of a different race are worse and should be treated unfairly
- Offensive
A way of behaving that shows you act too proud and think you are better than others
A way of thinking that focuses on getting ahead at work even if it hurts others
- Offensive
A strong belief that your group is better than others, often favoring men or your country
- Offensive
An insulting name for ideas that mix extreme communist and Nazi beliefs
- Offensive
A way of behaving that is self-important and demanding like a famous performer
- Slur
A confident, masculine way of acting shown by lesbian women and often seen as slang
Thinking or acting that shows no respect for workplace rules and proper behaviour
- Offensive
A negative or suspicious view of growing European influence that feels unwelcome
- Literature
Pretending to support social causes to seem caring without really acting
- Offensive
A view or action that treats people unfairly because of their gender
A way of acting that follows rules strictly even when common sense says not to
- Literature
Opposing new local projects near your home while allowing them in other places
- Informal
A tough, fearless, sometimes aggressive way of behaving that ignores rules and risks
- Formal
A way of behaving that shows little care for other people's feelings
A way of thinking that only cares about local matters and ignores wider issues
- Offensive
A parent who acts like they are better at raising children and makes others feel judged
How Positive
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word attitude moved from a body's 'posture' to mean a person's settled way of thinking or feeling, keeping the same root attitudine and apt- meaning 'fit'. So having a positive attitude is like having a mental 'position' that shows in how you behave.