stilted
stilted is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- alliteration
- alliterative
- altiloquence
- altiloquent
- anticlimax
- antithesis
- antithetical
- artificial
- attollent
- awkward
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- buffoonery
- buoy
- burlesque
- capstan
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- convexity
- crane
- dancing
- declamation
- declamatory
- derisive
- derrick
- doggerel
- drag
- drawn
- dredge
- dredger
- droll
- drollery
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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