posture
/ˈpɒst͡ʃə/
Meaning
The way a person holds and positions their body.
To put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.
The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
The way a person holds and positions their body.
To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
A situation or condition.
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
The way a person holds and positions their body.
To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
A situation or condition.
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
Examples
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;
Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]
Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
Word Forms
postures
posturing
postured
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.