nohowish attitude
- noun
- Informal
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actitud negativa
- The manager addressed his nohowish attitude during the performance review, urging him to be more constructive.
Examples
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Her nohowish attitude made teamwork extremely difficult for everyone involved.
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Don't show that nohowish attitude at the meeting!
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You won't get far in life if you maintain a nohowish attitude towards every challenge.
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His nohowish attitude made it hard to work together.
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Her nohowish attitude made collaboration challenging and discouraged others from sharing their ideas.
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The teacher pointed out his nohowish attitude and encouraged him to adopt a more positive approach in class.
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You will struggle to succeed if you continue to show a nohowish attitude whenever someone offers help.
Synonyms
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3.5
A way of thinking that expects bad things to happen
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9.9
Being easily annoyed, stubborn, and hard to get along with
A negative, unhelpful attitude that refuses or disagrees with others
A consistently unfriendly and angry way of acting
Antonyms
How Helpful
Surface Forms
Morphology
nohowish + attitude
The adjective 'nohowish' is a nonce formation from 'nohow' + the productive adjectival suffix '-ish', so combined with 'attitude' the phrase plausibly means an obstructive or unhelpful demeanour that a learner who recognises those parts could infer. However, 'nohow' is dialectal/rare and 'nohowish' is not attested in dictionaries, so the exact sense and idiomatic usage are not fully predictable for a B1 learner, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Nohowish attitude may come from the old word nohow, which meant 'no' or 'not at all', combined with attitude. Imagine someone who always says 'no' to ideas and stops plans. That image explains why it means 'an unhelpful or discouraging manner'.