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Attitudinize

Definition: Attitudinize

Attitudinize

Verb

1. Assume certain affected attitudes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Attitudinize

Synonym: attitudinise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Attitudinize

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Attitudinize

Language Translations for "attitudinize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

marr pozë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تكلف (affect, affectation, artificiality, constrain, mannerism, mummery, pose, preciosity), ‏تصنع (affectation, industrialize, make up, mannerism, mummery, pose, pretend, prim), ‏إتخذ حالة (posture). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

позирам (pose, posture, posturize, sit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zich voordoen (get up, pose, put on airs, rise, stand, stand up), zich aanstellen (pose, put on airs). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

afekti (pose, put on airs). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

gera seg upp (pose, put on airs). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olla olevinaan (be haughty, pose, put on airs, ride the high horse). (various references)

   

French

  

agir avec affectation, se donner des attitudes. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

jin tjirgje (pose, put on airs), healwiizje (pose, put on airs). (various references)

   

German

  

affektieren (pose, put on airs), so tun, als ob posieren, sich zieren (act coyly, be affected, make a fuss, need a lot of pressing, pose, put on airs), künsteln (pose, put on airs). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

affektál (pose, prim, put on airs, to attitudinize, to grimace, to make grimaces, to pose, to primp, to put on airs, to put on airs and graces), pózol (to attitudinize, to grimace, to make grimaces, to posture, to put on airs, to put on dog, to put on side, to strike an attitude). (various references)

   

Italian

  

posare (alight, bottom, grandstand, land, lay, laying, place, pose, put, put aside, put by, put down, put on airs, recline, rest, set, set down, sit, switch off, turn off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attitudinizeay

   

Portuguese

  

afectar (pose), tomar atitudes, fingir (assume, counterfeit, dissemble, double, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, palter, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

a-şi da aere (be on the high horse, be on the high ropes, cut a dash, feel one's oats, give oneself airs, look big, put on airs, ride the high horse), poza (pose, posture, show, sit, strike an attitude), fandosi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

принимать позы. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zauzimati neprirodno držanje, pozirati (fake, pose, pretend, sit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ser presuntuoso (pose, put on airs), ponerse (become, begin, come over, commence, Don, draw on, dress, garb, get, get down, get dressed, get into, get on, go, go down, go in, gown, grow, jump on, live, pose, pull on, put forward, put on, put on airs, put oneself, slip on, start, tag on, throw on, turn, turn about, turn around, up, wax, wear), darse tono (pose, posture, put it on, put on airs, swank). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำท่า. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yapmacık davranmak, tavır takınmak (come, pose, put on style, strike an attitude), poz yapmak (strike an attitude), kasılmak (be stretched tight, contract, set, strain, swagger, tighten), havalara girmek (give oneself airs, put on airs, queen it over). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

позувати (pose, posture). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Attitudinize

Derivations

Words beginning with "attitudinize": attitudinized, attitudinizes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Attitudinize"

Words rhyming with "attitudinize" (pronounced 'At`ti*tu"di*nize'): Adonize, Agnize, Aluminize, Anachronize, Bituminize, Cauponize, Cinchonize, Cognize, Debituminize, Defibrinize, galvanize, Mangonize, Miscognize, Ozonize, Peptonize, Platinize, Platitudinize, Prochronize, Recolonize, Rejuvenize, symphonize, Syntonize, Unsolemnize. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Attitudinize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-t-t-u-z"

-3 letters: dietitian, initiated.

-4 letters: attitude, initiate, intuited, titanite, uintaite, unitized.

-5 letters: attuned, audient, deutzia, diazine, inedita, nutated, tainted, taunted, unitize.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-t-t-u-z"
 

+1 letter: attitudinized, attitudinizes.

 

+5 letters: institutionalized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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