Meanings
- not comparableExpressive of or pertaining to attitude.
While Noice is generally positive about the police department he thinks that there are attitudinal problems among some of the rank and file.
1984 February 11, Christine Guilfoy, “200 Meet With Providence Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 6
plural attitudinals
- specifically conlanginghuman sciencesA particle that conveys the emotion, tone, mood, or feeling of the speaker.
The simplest way to use attitudinals is to place them at the beginning of a text. In that case, they express the speaker's prevailing attitude.
1997, John Woldemar Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language, →ISBN, page 285
Origin
- Latinaptitūdō
- Latinaptitūdin-
- Englishattitudinal
From Italian attitudine + -al, from Latin aptitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin aptitūdō, from aptus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, attitude + -al.
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Spanish actitudinal
- actitudinalTranslations
Cite this entry
attitudinal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attitudinal
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