BEARING

n. 1 carriage, deportment, manner, behaviour, conduct, aspect, demeanour, posture, stance, air, attitude, mien, presence Lewis's noble bearing makes him noticeable, even in a crowd 2 sustaining, supporting, endurance, enduring Thomas Jefferson considered the government of England totally without morality and insolent beyond bearing 3 aspect; relation, reference, relationship, correlation, pertinence, relevance, connection, relevancy, applicability, application, germaneness, significance The legal bearing of the case will become obvious in court It is unclear exactly what bearing your remarks have on the situation. 4 Often, bearings. direction, orientation, (relative) position The bearing of the lighthouse is now 180ø Which way is north? - I have lost my bearings entirely.