stilted
IPA: stˈɪɫtɪd
adjective
- Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.
- (figuratively) Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.
- (architecture) Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.
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Examples of "stilted" in Sentences
- The overall tone is quite stilted.
- The language is stilted and redundant.
- Yet isn't that a little hidebound and stilted
- In particular, the last bit sounds very stilted.
- I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.
- In contrast, his treatment of the present is stilted.
- But don't force that stilted usage on the rest of us.
- The language on this page is quite stilted and formal.
- Otherwise the article becomes artificially limited and stilted.
- Some of the translations are a little stilted and could be improved.
- Where the centre is at a point above the diameter, it is called a stilted arch.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.