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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. artificially formal;
- Example: "that artificial humility that her husband hated"
- Example: "contrived coyness"
- Example: "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"
- Example: "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
[syn: artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stilt \Stilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stilting.] To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stilted \Stilt"ed\, a. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. [1913 Webster] Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stilted adj 1: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

115 Moby Thesaurus words for "stilted": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous, elephantine, elevated, erect, euphuistic, exalted, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, forced, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, graceless, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, heavy, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, in buckram, inflated, inkhorn, la-di-da, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, lifted, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magniloquent, mannered, meretricious, mincing, muscle-bound, on stilts, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, pretentious, prim, raised, rampant, rhetorical, rigid, self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, solemn, sonorous, starch, starched, stiff, stuffy, sublime, swollen, tall, too-too, tortuous, tumid, turgid, ungraceful, unnatural, unwieldy, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, wooden