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say it: AT-uh-tood
attitude is a noun meaning "a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways". It is pronounced /ˈætəˌtud/ — AT-uh-tood. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
“he had the attitude that work was fun”
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
“he assumed an attitude of surrender”
position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for attitude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.