Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stiffly or artificially formal; stiff.
- adjective Architecture Having some vertical length between the impost and the beginning of the curve. Used of an arch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Elevated, as if on stilts; hence, pompous; inflated; formal; stiff and bombastic: said especially of language: as, a stilted mode of expression; a stilted style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
stiff andartificially formal - adjective
pompous - adjective of a building Supported by
stilts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective artificially formal
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Examples
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But there's a certain ... stilted character to them that I came to realize was the emergent property of all those swirling styles and ideas, cross-pollinating and recombining outside of the Anglo Bubble.
SFWA European Hall of Fame: a chance to read sf from outside of the Anglo Bubble - Boing Boing 2008
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If you look at their NASA Message Construct all you get are partial, generic ideas contained in stilted sentences - including what to say in a proverbial "Elevator Speech" with someone (I am guessing here) who wants to know what NASA does.
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If you look at their NASA Message Construct all you get are partial, generic ideas contained in stilted sentences - including what to say in a proverbial "Elevator Speech" with someone (I am guessing here) who wants to know what NASA does.
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I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.
September 5th, 2005 moriarty6 2005
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Perhaps the treatment of reformers like Mirdamadi and Abdi explains why some of the gerogan-girha tend to speak in stilted euphemisms, even when they are discussing events now a quarter of a century old.
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Perhaps the treatment of reformers like Mirdamadi and Abdi explains why some of the gerogan-girha tend to speak in stilted euphemisms, even when they are discussing events now a quarter of a century old.
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Perhaps the treatment of reformers like Mirdamadi and Abdi explains why some of the gerogan-girha tend to speak in stilted euphemisms, even when they are discussing events now a quarter of a century old.
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In such cases, the gait is stilted, that is, there is incomplete advancement of both members and, of course, the period of weight bearing is correspondingly shortened; hence the short strides.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Where the centre is at a point above the diameter, it is called a stilted arch.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Too often, the record sounds forced and stilted, which is unfortunate, since jazz/hip-hop fusion need a musician of Redman's caliber to make it credible in the jazz world.
AvaxHome RSS: SyraNNo 2010
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