defensive attitude

1. 1.

   an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')

   Synonymsdefensive

   Broaderattitude

Questions about defensive attitude

What does defensive attitude mean?

defensive attitude means "an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')".

What is another word for defensive attitude?

Close synonyms include defensive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defensive attitude a common word?

defensive attitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.