"attitudinize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌætəˈtud(ɪ)nˌaɪz/ [General-American], [-ɾə-] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-attitudinize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: attitudinizes [present, singular, third-person], attitudinizing [participle, present], attitudinized [participle, past], attitudinized [past]
Etymology: From Italian attitudine (“attitude, pose, posture”) + English -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’). Attitudine is borrowed from Late Latin aptitūdinem, the accusative singular of aptitūdō (“fitness, aptitude”), from Latin aptus (“apt, proper; adapted, suitable”) (from apō (“to attach, connect; to fasten”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to attach, join; to fasten; to fit”)) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ep-|*-tus|*-h₃onh₂-|*-idyé-|id=attach}}, {{der|en|it|attitudine|t=attitude, pose, posture}} Italian attitudine (“attitude, pose, posture”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{m|en|-ize|pos=suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do 􂀿something denoted by the word to which it is attached􂁀’}} -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’), {{m|it||Attitudine}} Attitudine, {{der|en|LL.|aptitūdinem}} Late Latin aptitūdinem, {{glossary|accusative}} accusative, {{glossary|singular}} singular, {{m|LL.|aptitūdō|t=fitness, aptitude}} aptitūdō (“fitness, aptitude”), {{der|en|la|aptus|t=apt, proper; adapted, suitable}} Latin aptus (“apt, proper; adapted, suitable”), {{m|la|apō|t=to attach, connect; to fasten}} apō (“to attach, connect; to fasten”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₂ep-|t=to attach, join; to fasten; to fit}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to attach, join; to fasten; to fit”), {{glossary|abstract noun}} abstract noun, {{m|la|-tūdō|pos=suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state}} -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state) Head templates: {{en-verb}} attitudinize (third-person singular simple present attitudinizes, present participle attitudinizing, simple past and past participle attitudinized)
  1. (transitive)
    To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.
    Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive
    Sense id: en-attitudinize-en-verb-eWl35wvy
  2. (transitive)
    To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
    Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Translations (to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude): tekeytyä (Finnish), inszenieren (German), spielen (German), vorgaukeln (German), vormachen (German)
    Sense id: en-attitudinize-en-verb-B2VZRS-o Disambiguation of 'to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude': 6 77 10 7
  3. (intransitive)
    To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
    Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive Translations (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize): 作勢 (Chinese Mandarin), 作势 (zuòshì) (Chinese Mandarin), aanstellen [reflexive] (Dutch), olla olevinaan ... (Finnish), tekeytyä (Finnish), in Pose werfen [reflexive] (German), posieren (German), so tun als ob (German), face nazuri (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-attitudinize-en-verb-s4KmjulD Disambiguation of 'to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize': 20 7 60 12
  4. (intransitive)
    (figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
    Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, figuratively, intransitive Translations (to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes): olla olevinaan ... (Finnish), tekeytyä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-attitudinize-en-verb-OPAWKwJm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize, Oxford spellings Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 8 23 61 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 11 10 24 55 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 18 14 24 44 Disambiguation of Oxford spellings: 7 4 20 69 Disambiguation of 'to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes': 3 4 9 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: attitudinise (english: non-Oxford British English) Derived forms: attitudinisation, attitudinization, attitudiniser, attitudinizer, attitudinising, attitudinizing [adjective, noun] Related terms: attitude, attitudinous

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      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "verb",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ize",
        "pos": "suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do 􂀿something denoted by the word to which it is attached􂁀’"
      },
      "expansion": "-ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "",
        "3": "Attitudine"
      },
      "expansion": "Attitudine",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "aptitūdinem"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin aptitūdinem",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "accusative"
      },
      "expansion": "accusative",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "singular"
      },
      "expansion": "singular",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "LL.",
        "2": "aptitūdō",
        "t": "fitness, aptitude"
      },
      "expansion": "aptitūdō (“fitness, aptitude”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aptus",
        "t": "apt, proper; adapted, suitable"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aptus (“apt, proper; adapted, suitable”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "apō",
        "t": "to attach, connect; to fasten"
      },
      "expansion": "apō (“to attach, connect; to fasten”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ep-",
        "t": "to attach, join; to fasten; to fit"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to attach, join; to fasten; to fit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "abstract noun"
      },
      "expansion": "abstract noun",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-tūdō",
        "pos": "suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state"
      },
      "expansion": "-tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Italian attitudine (“attitude, pose, posture”) + English -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’). Attitudine is borrowed from Late Latin aptitūdinem, the accusative singular of aptitūdō (“fitness, aptitude”), from Latin aptus (“apt, proper; adapted, suitable”) (from apō (“to attach, connect; to fasten”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to attach, join; to fasten; to fit”)) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "attitudinizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "attitudinizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "attitudinized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "attitudinized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "attitudinize (third-person singular simple present attitudinizes, present participle attitudinizing, simple past and past participle attitudinized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "at‧ti‧tud‧in‧ize"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "attitude"
    },
    {
      "word": "attitudinous"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Hortense Calisher, “In Greenwich there are Many Gravelled Walks”, in In the Absence of Angels: Stories, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 14",
          "text": "In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cause",
          "cause#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "attitude",
          "attitude"
        ],
        [
          "pose",
          "pose#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pose",
          "pose#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "posture",
          "posture#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "English",
        "Oxford",
        "US",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "give",
          "give#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "show",
          "show#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "affected",
          "affected#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "exaggerated",
          "exaggerated#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "English",
        "Oxford",
        "US",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unnatural",
          "unnatural"
        ],
        [
          "posturize",
          "posturize"
        ],
        [
          "excessively",
          "excessively"
        ],
        [
          "practise",
          "practise#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "adopt",
          "adopt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "English",
        "Oxford",
        "US",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 14, in The Long Goodbye, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 1954, →OCLC, page 89",
          "text": "There was a short typewritten paragraph on it, no more. It read, \"I do not care to be in love with myself and there is no longer anyone else for me to be in love with. Signed: Roger (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Wade. P.S. This is why I never finished The Last Tycoon.\" / \"That mean anything to you, Mrs. Wade?\" / \"Just attitudinizing. He has always been a great admirer of Scott Fitzgerald.[…]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "create",
          "create#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "art",
          "art#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "speak",
          "speak#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "write",
          "write#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "manner",
          "manner#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "(figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "English",
        "Oxford",
        "US",
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌætəˈtud(ɪ)nˌaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ɾə-]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "non-Oxford British English",
      "word": "attitudinise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
      "word": "tekeytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
      "word": "inszenieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
      "word": "spielen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
      "word": "vorgaukeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
      "word": "vormachen"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "作勢"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuòshì",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "作势"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "aanstellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "olla olevinaan ..."
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "tekeytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "in Pose werfen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "posieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "so tun als ob"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
      "word": "face nazuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes",
      "word": "olla olevinaan ..."
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes",
      "word": "tekeytyä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "attitudinize"
}

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