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Posture is the way you position your body or arrange your limbs. So stand up straight, put your shoulders back, and lift that chin up.

Ballerinas have an elegant, graceful posture, and soldiers tend to display a rigid, strong posture. If you sit hunched over your desk every day you'll end up with terrible posture. This noun describes the way you carry yourself, but can also describe a certain body position you take, like the different postures in yoga. If you're accused of posturing though, that's a different story — that means you're behaving unnaturally to impress someone.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: posture

1	n v	the arrangement of the body and its limbs behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
2	n	capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: posture

n the arrangement of the body and its limbs

Synonyms:: attitude, position

Types:: show 20 types...; hide 20 types...; order arms
a position in the manual of arms; the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground; often used as a command; ballet position
classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet; decubitus
a reclining position (as in a bed); eversion
the position of being turned outward; lithotomy position
a position lying on your back with knees bent and thighs apart; assumed for vaginal or rectal examination; lotus position
a sitting position with the legs crossed; used in yoga; missionary position
a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples; pose
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes; presentation
(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; ectopia
abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth); asana
(Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga); guard
a posture of defence in boxing or fencing; sprawl, sprawling
an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about; stance
standing posture; tuck
(sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest; arabesque
position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose; matsyendra
(Hinduism) a religious posture; address
the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball; attention
a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review; erectness, uprightness
the property of being upright in posture

Type of:: bodily property
an attribute of the body

n characteristic way of bearing one's body

“stood with good posture”

Synonyms:: bearing, carriage

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; manner of walking, walk
manner of walking; slouch
a stooping carriage in standing and walking; gracefulness
beautiful carriage; awkwardness, clumsiness
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant; grace, gracility
elegance and beauty of movement or expression; agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness
the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble; lissomeness, litheness, suppleness
the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple; gracelessness, ungracefulness
an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression; gawkiness, ungainliness
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant; stiffness
the property of moving with pain or difficulty

Type of:: bodily property
an attribute of the body

n a rationalized mental attitude

Synonyms:: position, stance

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; hard line
a firm and uncompromising stance or position; point of view, stand, standpoint, viewpoint
a mental position from which things are viewed; cityscape
a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; landscape
an extensive mental viewpoint; angle, slant
a biased way of looking at or presenting something; complexion
a point of view or general attitude or inclination

Type of:: attitude, mental attitude
a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

v behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

“She postured and made a total fool of herself”

Synonyms:: pose

Types:: attitudinise, attitudinize
assume certain affected attitudes

Type of:: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport
behave in a certain manner

v assume a posture as for artistic purposes

Synonyms:: model, pose, sit

Types:: ramp
be rampant

Type of:: display, exhibit, expose
to show, make visible or apparent

n capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

Synonyms:: military capability, military posture, military strength, strength

Types:: sea power
naval strength; firepower
(military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target

Type of:: capability, capableness
the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

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