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stilted 音標拼音: [st'ɪltɪd] a. 踩高蹺的;夸張的 踩高蹺的;誇張的 stilted adj 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" [ synonym: { artificial}, { contrived}, { hokey}, { stilted}] Stilt \ Stilt\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Stilted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Stilting}.] To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts. [ 1913 Webster]
Stilted \ Stilt" ed\, a. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " stilted": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big- sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous, elephantine, elevated, erect, euphuistic, exalted, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, forced, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, graceless, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, heavy, high, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, highfalutin, in buckram, inflated, inkhorn, la- di- da, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, lifted, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magniloquent, mannered, meretricious, mincing, muscle- bound, on stilts, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, pretentious, prim, raised, rampant, rhetorical, rigid, self- important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, solemn, sonorous, starch, starched, stiff, stuffy, sublime, swollen, tall, too- too, tortuous, tumid, turgid, ungraceful, unnatural, unwieldy, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, wooden
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