meaning of stilted

1. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
2.
of Stilt
3.
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"


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