Stilted

Adjective

 * 1) stiff and artificially formal
 * He gave a stilted bow and left.
 * 1)  Supported by stilts.

Derived terms

 * stiltedly
 * stiltedness

Adverbs for Stilted
formally; uncomfortably; uneasily; stupidly; ineptly; unfortunately; curiously; crudely; awkwardly; terribly; nervously; gracelessly; pretentiously; absurdly; fantastically; outlandishly; bombastically; bashfully; inexpertly; grossly; unwontedly; unreasonably.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * German: gestelzt
 * Icelandic: tilgerðarlegur, uppskrúfaður, klúsaður


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Anagrams

 * slitted