POSTURE meaning: Position or alignment of body

We found 43 dictionaries that define the word posture:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

posture: Merriam-Webster.com
posture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
posture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
posture: Collins English Dictionary
posture: Vocabulary.com
Posture, posture: Wordnik
posture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
posture: Wiktionary
posture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
posture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
posture: Infoplease Dictionary
posture: Dictionary.com
posture: Online Etymology Dictionary
posture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Posture (disambiguation), Posture (psychology), Posture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Posture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
posture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
posture: Rhymezone
posture, posture (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
posture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
posture: Free Dictionary
posture: Mnemonic Dictionary
posture: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
posture: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

posture: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

posture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Posture: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Posture: Merck Manuals
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
posture: Medical dictionary
Posture: Brain Injury
Posture: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

posture: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

posture: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
posture: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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

Similar:

pose, position, attitude, model, sit, carriage, bearing, asana, form, gait, more...

Opposite:

slouch, slump, hunch, droop, collapse

Types:

slouching, sitting up straight, hunched over, leaning forward, leaning back, more...

Phrases:

military posture, head posture, lotus posture, neutral posture, static posture, more...

Adjectives:

erect, upright, good, defensive, poor, recumbent, correct, military, proper, normal, aggressive

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