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STILTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stilted mean?
• STILTED (adjective)
The adjective STILTED has 1 sense:
1. artificially formal
Familiarity information: STILTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Artificially formal
Synonyms:
artificial; contrived; hokey; stilted
Context example:
when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation
Similar:
affected; unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)
Context examples
Its two most distinctive features are its blue-black tongue and its almost straight hind legs, which causes it to walk rather stilted.
(Chow Chow, NCI Thesaurus)
His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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