Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to posture
Participle: postured
Gerund: posturing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | posture |
| you | posture |
| he;she;it | postures |
| we | posture |
| you | posture |
| they | posture |
Perfect
| I | have postured |
| you | have postured |
| he;she;it | has postured |
| we | have postured |
| you | have postured |
| they | have postured |
Past
| I | postured |
| you | postured |
| he;she;it | postured |
| we | postured |
| you | postured |
| they | postured |
Pluperfect
| I | had postured |
| you | had postured |
| he;she;it | had postured |
| we | had postured |
| you | had postured |
| they | had postured |
Future
| I | will posture |
| you | will posture |
| he;she;it | will posture |
| we | will posture |
| you | will posture |
| they | will posture |
Future Perfect
| I | will have postured |
| you | will have postured |
| he;she;it | will have postured |
| we | will have postured |
| you | will have postured |
| they | will have postured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | posture |
| you | posture |
| he;she;it | posture |
| we | posture |
| you | posture |
| they | posture |
Perfect
| I | have postured |
| you | have postured |
| he;she;it | have postured |
| we | have postured |
| you | have postured |
| they | have postured |
Imperfect
| I | postured |
| you | postured |
| he;she;it | postured |
| we | postured |
| you | postured |
| they | postured |
Pluperfect
| I | had postured |
| you | had postured |
| he;she;it | had postured |
| we | had postured |
| you | had postured |
| they | had postured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would posture |
| you | would posture |
| he;she;it | would posture |
| we | would posture |
| you | would posture |
| they | would posture |
Perfect
| I | would have postured |
| you | would have postured |
| he;she;it | would have postured |
| we | would have postured |
| you | would have postured |
| they | would have postured |
Imperative
| you | posture |
| we | Let's posture |
| you | posture |
Verbs conjugated like 'posture'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'posture'
pasture,
costume,
gesture,
pestre,
picture,
poster,
postlude,
posturise,
posturize,
torture,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1605, from Fr. posture (16c.), from It. postura "position, posture," from L. positura "position, station," from postulus, pp. of ponere "put, place" (see position). The verb, in the fig. sense of "to take up an artificial mental position" is attested from 1877. Posturpedic trademark name (Sealy, Inc., Chicago) for a brand of mattress, filed in 1951.
2. Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.
Sample Sentences
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If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
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The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
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But these plays allow us to look beyond the posturing, punditry and angry speechifying, to really feel the painful, inescapable hardships of daily life as it is lived by increasing numbers of Americans. [2016 September 3, Charles Isherwood, “Anxious Dramas for the Age of Trump and Sanders”, in The New York Times:]
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Belarusian officials continue to posture military strength amid the ongoing Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast, Russia. [2024 August 16, Kateryna Stepanenko, Christina Harward, Riley Bailey, Angelica Evans, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 16, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:]
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to posture oneself; to posture a model
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As pointed Diamonds being set, Cast greater lustre out of Jet, Those peeces we esteem most rare, Which in night shadows postur'd are. [1655, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:]