About The Word Stilted
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Stilted
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What's The Definition Of Stilted?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Stilted: affected | artificial | contrived | unnatural Related Terms | Find terms related to Stilted: See Also | Stilted In Webster's Dictionary \Stilt"ed\, a.
Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a
stilted style; stilted declamation.
{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.
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