'Posture' definitions:
Definition of 'posture'
From: WordNet
noun
The arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude]
noun
Characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture]
noun
noun
Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture" [syn: military capability, military strength, strength, military posture, posture]
verb
Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" [syn: pose, posture]
verb
Definition of 'Posture'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Posture'
From: GCIDE
- Posture \Pos"ture\, v. i.
- 1. To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Posture'
From: GCIDE
- Posture \Pos"ture\ (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. positura, fr. ponere, positum, to place. See Position.]
- 1. The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude. [1913 Webster]
- Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- In most strange postures We have seen him set himself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Place; position; situation. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs. [1913 Webster]
- The several postures of his devout soul. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Attitude; position. See Attitude. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'posture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affect,
- affectation,
- affectivity,
- air,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- array,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- attitudinize,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- beck,
- beckon,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- body language,
- brow,
- carriage,
- case,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- charade,
- cheating,
- chironomy,
- circumstance,
- climate of opinion,
- color,
- coloring,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- complexion,
- comportment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- condition,
- conduct,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- countenance,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- dactylology,
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- disposition,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- dumb show,
- emotion,
- emotivity,
- estate,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- facade,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- feeling,
- feeling tone,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fix,
- folkway,
- footing,
- format,
- four-flushing,
- frame of mind,
- fraud,
- front,
- garb,
- general belief,
- gesticulation,
- gesture,
- gesture language,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- hand signal,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- idea,
- imposture,
- impression,
- jam,
- judgment,
- kinesics,
- layout,
- lights,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- location,
- looks,
- lot,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mental attitude,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mind,
- modality,
- mode,
- modus vivendi,
- mood,
- motion,
- motions,
- movement,
- movements,
- moves,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observable behavior,
- observation,
- opinion,
- organization,
- orientation,
- ostentation,
- outlook,
- outward show,
- pantomime,
- pass,
- pass for,
- pass off,
- pattern,
- peacock,
- personal judgment,
- physiognomy,
- pickle,
- place,
- playacting,
- plight,
- point of view,
- poise,
- popular belief,
- port,
- pose,
- pose for effect,
- posing,
- position,
- practice,
- praxis,
- predicament,
- presence,
- presumption,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevailing belief,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- promptness,
- psychology,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- quickness,
- rank,
- reaction,
- readiness,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sentiment,
- sham,
- show,
- show off,
- shrug,
- sight,
- sign language,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sit,
- situation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- spot,
- stance,
- standing,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- strike a pose,
- strike an attitude,
- style,
- tactics,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tone,
- traits,
- turn,
- varnish,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- visage,
- way,
- way of life,
- way of thinking,
- ways,
- window dressing