Attitudinize

Quick meaning: Attitudinize is a verb meaning To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.

Meaning

To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.

More Meanings

1. To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
2. To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

The elegant Sparkins attitudinized with admirable effect until the family had crossed the room.

In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees.

He had a great averſion to geſticulating in company. He called once to a gentleman vvho offended him in that point, "Don't attitudeniſe."

Radet was a cadaverous, weather-worn, passion-worn individual, badger-grey, and worked up into a grotesquely attitudinised fury of injured self-esteem

Word Forms

• attitudinizes
• attitudinizing
• attitudinized
• attitudinise

Synonyms for attitudinize

Depending on context, synonyms include attitudinise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attitudinise, pose, attitude, put on, posturize, posture.

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