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Stilted synonyms

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pompous
(Archaic) Characterized by pomp or stately display:
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  1. (Archaic) Characterized by pomp or stately display:
  2. Characterized by exaggerated stateliness; pretentious, as in speech or manner; self-important
  3. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious:
affected
Assumed for effect; artificial
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  1. Assumed for effect; artificial
  2. Infected or attacked, as by disease.
  3. Assumed or simulated to impress others:
decorous
Characterized by or showing decorum, propriety, good taste, etc.
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  1. Characterized by or showing decorum, propriety, good taste, etc.
  2. Characterized by or exhibiting decorum; proper:
buckram
Of or like buckram
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  1. Of or like buckram
  2. Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality:
  3. (Now Rare) Stiff; formal
starchy
Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity.
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  1. Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity.
  2. Containing starch.
  3. Pertaining to the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
stiff
Having a strong, swift, steady force or movement:
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  1. Having a strong, swift, steady force or movement:
  2. Not fluid or loose; viscous; thick; dense; firm
  3. Not liquid, loose, or fluid; thick:
wooden
Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
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  1. Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
  2. Made of wood.
  3. Stiff and unnatural; without spirit:
Find another word for stilted. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for stilted, like: pompous, affected, decorous, egotistic, prim, buckram, starchy, stiff, wooden and flexible.

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  • Friends and strangers alike acted out their stilted scenes before dropping onto the page as words again.

  • Speaking generally, they are characterized by a stilted, affected style and a tone of gross adulation.

  • Af ter the death of Holberg, the affectation of Gallicism had reappeared in Denmark; and the tragedies of Voltaire, with their stilted rhetoric, were the most popular dramas of the day.

  • Most of the compositions in the literary language, whether old or archaistic, are in a stilted style and often with parallelisms of phrase like those of Hebrew poetry.

  • In his youth he had been a playgoer, but he shortly came to the conclusion that tragedy is a stilted and bombastic art, and after a time comedy interested him no more than tragedy.

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