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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for stilted:

1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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.
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3. 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.
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   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]

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