Posture

Quick meaning: Posture is a noun meaning The way a person holds and positions their body.

Meaning

The way a person holds and positions their body.

More Meanings

1. A situation or condition.
2. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
3. (intransitive) To put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.
4. (intransitive) To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
5. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
6. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.

Example Sentences

Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.

Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.

As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture.

[…] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;

Word Forms

• postures
• posturing
• postured

Synonyms for posture

Depending on context, synonyms include model, position, bearing, pose, attitude, carriage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attitude, position, bearing, sit, model, carriage.

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