posture

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymspose

   Broaderbehave

   Narrowerattitudinize
2. 2.

   assume a posture as for artistic purposes

   “We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often”

   Synonymsmodelposesit

   Broaderexpose

   Narrowerramp

   art

Other forms of posture

plural

postures·

past tense

postured·

present participle

posturing·

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.

Questions about posture

What does posture mean?

posture means "the arrangement of the body and its limbs". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in posture?

posture has 2 syllables: po-sture. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑstʃɚ/.

What is another word for posture?

Close synonyms include position, attitude, carriage, bearing, position. 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 posture a common word?

posture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.