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Stilted Moderate

Stilted has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of stilt

Adjective
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"

2

Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.

Example Sentences
"that artificial humility that her husband hated" adjective
"contrived coyness" adjective
"a stilted letter of acknowledgment" adjective
"when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" adjective
See Also
unstilted cothurnus stiff laboured johnsonese artificially stilt puppetry
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Rhyming Words
ted sted nted voted muted fated sated cited sited meted noted outed lated usted feted anted acted bited doted bated
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