stilted
from
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}]
from
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]
from
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
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