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Adjective
▲
Unnatural or contrived in nature
stiff
wooden
forced
constrained
artificial
labouredUK
unnatural
awkward
laboredUS
strained
ungraceful
clumsy
contrived
gauche
graceless
inelegant
laborious
uncomfortable
uneasy
unrelaxed
mincing
rustic
rustical
self-conscious
rough-hewn
uncouth
maladroit
unpolished
ungainly
unrefined
uncivil
discourteous
gross
disrespectful
ungracious
blunt
lowbrow
bad-mannered
brusque
lowbred
low
ungentlemanly
insolent
common
unladylike
impertinent
curt
impudent
roughneck
raffish
incult
mannerless
illiberal
gruff
uncivilizedUS
insensible
rugged
ungallant
uncivilisedUK
savage
uncalled-for
brutish
abrupt
offhand
abusive
audacious
unpleasant
unchivalrous
harsh
sharp
primitive
unhandsome
surly
wild
ungenteel
short
unseemly
loud
Neanderthal
low-bred
disagreeable
presumptuous
brash
unceremonious
inappropriate
insulting
bad
derogatory
disparaging
indiscreet
cheeky
cavalier
cheap
uncomplimentary
gaudy
contumelious
malapert
philistine
misbehaved
flip
smart-alecky
fresh
underbred
inaffable
lewd
sullen
provincial
crusty
disgracious
inurbane
heathen
heathenish
natural
raunchy
slobbish
in bad taste
foul-mouthed
loud-mouthed
bashful
objectionable
badly behaved
uncourteous
sassy
parochial
ill
ill-humoredUS
plebeian
agrestic
vicious
inhuman
hooligan
bearish
ill-humouredUK
classless
yobbish
Neandertal
thuggish
sickening
revolting
vile
poor
unsavouryUK
shoddy
sleazy
unsavoryUS
sordid
unacceptable
sketchy
disgusting
nauseating
profane
terse
testy
snappy
tawdry
flashy
garish
bizarre
abrasive
immature
backward
tacky
pointed
caustic
callous
careless
trashy
flash
ostentatious
showy
snippy
brusk
brief
sick
gruesome
rash
straightforward
hasty
precipitate
untactful
impetuous
snippety
impatient
meretricious
tatty
naff
snappish
bluff
kitsch
tart
irascible
off-color
ornate
unclassy
low-down-and-dirty
trivial
useless
hideous
pretentious
unlovely
unsightly
makeshift
low-down
unfriendly
brisk
obscene
in poor taste
cheap and nasty
petulant
breviloquent
debased
foul
indecent
direct
bad-tempered
irreverent
smutty
blasphemous
short-tempered
short-spoken
ill-tempered
no-nonsense
matter-of-fact
to the point
sacrilegious
strong
arrogant
uncharitable
cocky
mouthy
brazen
smart alecky
lippy
overbearing
out-of-line
insubordinate
disdainful
intrusive
crabbed
peremptory
yokelish
bounderish
more ❯
“There were long periods with little to no dialogue, and what dialogue there was felt stilted and unnatural.”
Adjective
▲
Strictly conventional in one's manner or behavior
ceremonious
decorous
formal
correct
proper
punctilious
stiff
mannered
nice
starchy
genteel
stiff-necked
courtly
conventional
seemly
dignified
precise
stately
exact
scrupulous
careful
civil
strict
courteous
traditional
orthodox
particular
polite
official
elaborate
more ❯
“She nodded acquiescence to his rather stilted request for her permission to seat himself beside her.”
Adjective
▲
Pompous in nature, especially in regards to tone of voice or writing
pompous
pretentious
egotistic
inflated
affected
pedantic
prim
bombastic
grandiloquent
overblown
euphuistic
flowery
fustian
magniloquent
sonorous
high-flown
high-sounding
arty-farty
grandiose
rhetorical
turgid
orotund
oratorical
highfalutin
ornate
overripe
florid
purple
tumid
windy
big
complicated
formal
wordy
fancy
baroque
erudite
scholarly
histrionic
ornamented
bombast
long-winded
fussy
ranting
prolix
haughty
la-di-da
dramatic
figurative
big-talking
windbag
stagy
ornamental
rococo
elocutionary
puffed-up
majestic
impressive
mannered
actorly
boasting
portentous
curlicued
over-the-top
wedding-cake
busy
gingerbread
bold
high
very elaborate
elegant
blathering
blustering
high-falutin
overinflated
discursive
decorative
garnished
rich
luscious
high-minded
snobbish
rhapsodic
loudmouthed
balderdash
tall
arty
overelaborate
high-wrought
Miltonian
epic
Homeric
booming
melodramatic
arresting
redundant
diffuse
euphemistic
stuffed shirt
verbal
linguistic
overwritten
euphistic
tall-talking
stylistic
highly decorated
long
learned
full of hot air
fervid
impassioned
persuasive
gesturing
vivid
forceful
gesticulative
senatorial
loud
noisy
expressive
intoning
important
noble
stentorian
complex
involved
detailed
decorated
excessive
rhapsodical
overestimated
more ❯
“And, finally, remember that you're writing to another human being, so avoid a stilted tone that's devoid of personality.”
Adjective
▲
Boring or severely lacking in interest
ponderous
dull
pedestrian
dreary
stodgy
labouredUK
tedious
boring
lifeless
plodding
dry
heavy
monotonous
uninteresting
artificial
awkward
clumsy
forced
laborious
pedantic
tiresome
unnatural
serious
solemn
stolid
turgid
arid
colourlessUK
colorlessUS
drab
drudging
dusty
flat
ho-hum
humdrum
jading
jejune
leaden
mind-numbing
monochromatic
numbing
old
slow
stale
stuffy
stupid
tame
tiring
wearisome
weary
wearying
barren
cardboard
laboredUS
stiff
vapid
wooden
run-of-the-mill
commonplace
uneventful
routine
bland
lacklustreUK
lacklusterUS
mundane
uninspiring
unvaried
repetitious
trite
blah
unremarkable
samey
tired
unvarying
repetitive
fatiguing
characterless
spiritless
ordinary
sterile
workaday
quotidian
common
bromidic
hackneyed
soporific
everyday
featureless
deadly
ho hum
dull as dishwater
as dry as dust
enervating
exhausting
unstimulating
monochrome
vanilla
prosy
dullsville
dreich
draggy
lacking variety
dry as dust
uniform
dead
unexceptional
conventional
mediocre
unchanging
unenjoyable
unentertaining
depressing
nowhere
soul-destroying
nothing
wishy-washy
plain vanilla
inane
monotone
mindless
big yawn
vacuous
interminable
matter-of-fact
stock
passionless
platitudinous
mechanical
lame
dragging
uncreative
usual
unrelieved
toneless
dismal
desolate
limp
feeble
weariful
empty
bloodless
corny
day-to-day
hacky
yawnsome
lacking variation
ornery
weak
innocuous
white-bread
treadmill
lacking excitement
lacking interest
nondescript
old hat
no great shakes
not up to much
nothing to write home about
common or garden
unlively
unpassioned
unmemorable
undistinctive
neutral
indistinct
longwinded
undistinguished
second-rate
trying
irritating
annoying
indifferent
unadventurous
derived
anaemicUK
unanimated
uninterested
tepid
trivial
puerile
quiet
sleepy
slack
boresome
vexatious
unobjectionable
safe
harmless
normal
typical
customary
regular
soulless
simplistic
crude
meagerUS
meagreUK
stagnant
droning
uninventive
average
mainstream
inoffensive
overlong
unspirited
irksome
unproductive
unprogressive
inactive
without variety
garden variety
garden-variety
halfhearted
diluted
winteryUK
raw
sorrowful
dispiriting
damp
oppressive
wintryUS
windy
half-pie
bog-standard
OK
so-so
monotonic
all the same
reiterated
recurrent
sing-song
samely
unchanged
unimpressed
unmoved
heavy-handed
yawn
one-horse
deadening
pointless
vacant
pabulum
mortal
poky
snooze
a dime a dozen
unfeeling
lusterless
milk-and-water
watery
unexcited
expressionless
mat
dulled
unexpressive
matte
dead-and-alive
truistic
zestless
non-stimulating
flat as pancake
puts one to sleep
worn-out
boiled down
without punch
endless
anemicUS
run of the mill
uninflected
antiseptic
not so hot
unseasoned
unpalatable
blind
sapless
muted
whitebread
bleak
dowdy
plain
hack
phoned in
overused
lead balloon
namby-pamby
long-drawn-out
stereotyped
clichéd
middle-of-the-road
out of date
outdated
old-fashioned
outmoded
archaic
obsolete
defunct
extinct
antiquated
antediluvian
superannuated
hoary
passé
cliché-ridden
timeworn
out of the ark
worn out
played out
cut and dried
time-worn
more ❯
Adjective
▲
(of behaviour, art, or a literary style) Marked by idiosyncratic or exaggerated mannerisms
mannered
affected
artificial
posed
put-on
pretentious
pseudo
contrived
actorly
arty-farty
elaborate
forced
insincere
precious
stiff
theatrical
unnatural
airish
apish
artsy
camp
campy
chichi
conscious
false
genteel
highfaluting
self-conscious
simpering
stagy
gone Hollywood
stuck up
show
amateur
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Overly formal, pompous or conventional
stuffy
staid
conventional
old-fashioned
formal
pompous
prim
priggish
strait-laced
impersonal
reserved
sedate
sober
stiff
conformist
conservative
deadly
fogeyish
musty
fuddy-duddy
fusty
humourlessUK
square
starchy
straight
niminy-piminy
old-fogeyish
stick-in-the-mud
uptight
arrogant
bloated
foetidUK
fetidUS
genteel
hot
humorlessUS
important
magisterial
narrow
narrow-minded
prissy
prudish
puffy
puritanical
self-important
smelly
smoky
smug
straitlaced
strict
supercilious
Victorian
warm
of the old school
as dry as dust
prim and proper
fussy
particular
pernickety
respectable
moral
tight-laced
refined
Pecksniffian
picky
choosy
persnickety
delicate
precious
self-righteous
ascetic
intolerant
mannerly
sententious
courteous
sanctimonious
po-faced
shockable
censorious
square-toed
stickling
upright
holier-than-thou
well-mannered
overparticular
pedantic
self-satisfied
honourableUK
honorableUS
demanding
dainty
conforming
exacting
meticulous
dignified
nit-picking
finical
cultivated
snobbish
choosey
gentlemanly
elegant
polished
decent
finicking
befitting
fussbudgety
ladylike
civil
courtly
virtuous
urbane
stylish
well-bred
distingué
fashionable
chivalrous
ostentatious
confined
hollow
graceful
la-di-da
well-behaved
de rigueur
namby-pamby
overscrupulous
epicene
sissy
sissified
goody-two-shoes
pansified
pietistic
pious
fanatical
disapproving
timid
Pharisaic
hair-shirt
spartan
hidebound
hypocritical
complacent
vain
abstemious
abstinent
timorous
niggly
pi
conscientious
principled
prude
cultured
straight-laced
god-fearing
unctuous
PC
upstanding
high-minded
overcautious
righteous
ethical
right-minded
becoming
blue-nose
cleanly
good
dapper
ceremonial
spic-and-span
spruce
wooden
politically correct
goody two-shoes
discriminating
sophisticated
old-womanish
civilizedUS
gracious
fit
right
suitable
modest
fitting
couth
accomplished
discerning
sensitive
critical
orthodox
fine
well bred
posh
well mannered
done
pure
sharp
keen
selective
patronisingUK
civilisedUK
patronizingUS
snooty
discreet
condescending
in line
comme il faut
by the book
meet
comely
perceptive
faddy
faddish
perfectionist
acute
careful
hypercritical
nitpicking
overdelicate
hard to please
over-particular
difficult to please
impossible to please
nit-picky
aristocratic
noble
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Behaving in a manner that is socially awkward
socially inept
dorky
awkward
gauche
geeky
nerdy
uneasy
bashful
maladroit
sheepish
shy
blundering
socially awkward
socially anxious
socially incompetent
socially lacking
ill at ease
self-conscious
embarrassed
diffident
uncomfortable
nervous
unnatural
tense
edgy
modest
inhibited
insecure
strained
blushing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Without human warmth or sympathy
impersonal
aloof
cold
dispassionate
remote
distant
businesslike
cool
formal
indifferent
reserved
unemotional
withdrawn
frigid
passionless
unconcerned
unfeeling
unresponsive
unsentimental
detached
matter-of-fact
neutral
restrained
rigid
self-controlled
starchy
stiff
wooden
bureaucratic
clinical
gelid
inhuman
stand-offish
abstract
anonymous
candid
careful
cold-blooded
colourlessUK
colorlessUS
depersonalisedUK
depersonalizedUS
emotionless
equal
faceless
featureless
frosty
grayUS
greyUK
impartial
impassive
inhospitable
measured
monolithic
nondiscriminatory
poker-faced
soulless
straight
uncolored
uncongenial
unfriendly
unpassioned
unwelcoming
cold turkey
strictly business
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Pedantic
inkhorn
pedantic
abstruse
academic
arid
bookish
didactic
doctrinaire
donnish
dry
dull
egotistic
erudite
formal
formalistic
fussy
hairsplitting
learned
literary
nit-picking
ostentatious
overnice
particular
pedagogic
pedantical
pompous
priggish
punctilious
scholastic
schoolish
sententious
educational
instructive
enlightening
homiletic
edifying
preceptive
informative
moralistic
moralizingUS
doctrinal
improving
instructional
teaching
educative
informational
illuminating
tuitional
schoolmasterly
preachy
homiletical
sermonic
moral
heuristic
propaedeutic
teacherly
teacherish
teachy
exhortative
moralisingUK
schoolmasterist
advisory
hortative
sermonisingUK
expository
sermonizingUS
Adjective
▲
Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward
lanky
thin
rangy
spindly
stringy
gangling
gangly
gawky
scrawny
skinny
slender
slim
twiggy
weedy
angular
attenuated
beanpole
beanstalk
bony
emaciated
extenuated
gaunt
lank
lean
rawboned
scraggy
skeletal
spare
spindling
leggy
meagreUK
meagerUS
pinched
tall
skin-and-bones
long-legged
loose-jointed
raw-boned
size-zero
shrunken
famished
atrophied
faded
diminutive
careworn
ashen
pale
tired
ghastly
exhausted
fatigued
limber
elfin
petite
pallid
undersize
wearied
wrinkled
weakened
Lilliputian
fun size
dwarfish
shrimpy
pint-size
pygmy
bantam
fagged
fretted
worn-down
tiny
flexible
slimline
starving
ill-fed
papery
wafer-thin
polished
worn to a shadow
consumptive
phthisical
skeletonlike
deteriorating
wilted
degenerative
flagging
loose-limbed
stringbean
agile
sapped
unwell
drained
sickly
unhealthy
spent
thin as rail
dainty
pocket-size
ravaged
grim
rundown
midget
washed out
grayUS
greyUK
pasty-faced
sallow
short
ghostlike
worn-out
deathlike
dinky
pocket-sized
pocket
half-pint
wee
toylike
smallish
subnormal
lightly-built
extended
slimmed
thread-like
refined
thinned
lengthened
meek
peewee
squat
runtish
homuncular
stunted
stubby
dwarf
shrimp
mere
a slip of a …
stretched out
thinned down
spun out
drawn out
tight
close
restricted
limited
confined
cramped
compact
constricted
confining
congested
squeezed
circumscribed
scanty
incapacious
compressed
choked
defined
definite
finite
determinate
bounded
sparse
measured
scant
exiguous
jammed
contracted
near
straitened
incommodious
narrowing
strait
pent
fixed
taper
paltry
narrow-gauged
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Appearing decisive or cheerful but unstable or nervous within
brittle
edgy
nervous
tense
anxious
excitable
hysterical
jumpy
neurotic
sensitive
skittish
unstable
curt
insecure
irritable
nervy
on edge
stiff
uptight
wired
highly strung
prim
jittery
unsettled
uneasy
twitchy
fidgety
restless
high-strung
agitated
worked up
strained
strung out
strung up
in a state
in a flap
flustered
alarmed
windy
squirrelly
ruffled
all of a dither
shaken
rattled
in a tizz
self-conscious
disconcerted
wrought up
in a state of agitation
dismayed
in a stew
embarrassed
panicky
in a sweat
in a twitter
all of a lather
in a state of nerves
awkward
hesitant
unrelaxed
distraught
having kittens
in a twit
a bundle of nerves
uncertain
discomfited
fazed
all of a doodah
in a dither
vexed
unrestful
discombobulated
unsure
fraught
annoyed
worried sick
frantic
trembling
bricking oneself
febrile
hot and bothered
stressed out
distracted
shaking
like a fish out of water
frenzied
aroused
retiring
shook up
terrified
tormented
suspicious
perplexed
confused
unsteady
harassed
in a panic
in a cold sweat
fractious
out of place
bashful
inhibited
hectic
quaking
shrinking
shocked
overactive
heated
irresolute
frazzled
wrought-up
moved
doubtful
under stress
choked
pressured
under pressure
irritated
turbulent
thrown
unpeaceful
anguished
fidgeting
hassled
irked
waiting for the axe to fall
waiting with bated breath
unnatural
desperate
gauche
overexcited
wreck
blushing
unhappy
startled
weak
daunted
fevered
white-knuckled
diffident
perverse
ornery
quivering
fretting
under a strain
wavering
in turmoil
hot under the collar
unconfident
provoked
withdrawn
fitful
unruly
stirred
worked-up
clutched
itchy
inflamed
discountenanced
high
shot to pieces
introverted
aghast
watchful
affected
tired
creepy
angstful
feverish
solicitous
careworn
bugged
unyielding
inconvenienced
animated
frozen
a wreck
beset
riled
in a spin
active
sleepless
tortured
plagued
muddled
all of a flutter
in a flat spin
beside yourself
put out
worried stiff
tossing and turning
stressed-out
eager
difficult
twittering
cross
complaining
indecisive
tentative
disorientated
faltering
petulant
dithering
vacillating
miserable
highly-strung
disoriented
bewildered
wriggly
swithering
constrained
squirmy
frisky
strange
lost
distrustful
wiggly
grumpy
ill-natured
caught up
reserved
flushed
intense
overtaxed
taxed
roused
exasperated
manic
cranky
splenetic
out of sorts
whining
crabby
grumbling
ratty
aquiver
stirred up
flapping
disorderly
all wound up
unreluctant
irrational
moving
shot
unbalanced
agog
eagerly
angry
galled
chafed
snappish
contrary
cavilingUS
faultfinding
carping
huffy
mean
strict
conventional
cautious
in a lather
discomforted
fussy
hyped-up
afire
atingle
hyperexcited
stimulated
stoked
jazzed
sheepish
shamefaced
modest
white knuckled
all agog
avid
open-mouthed
afflicted
asea
cavillingUK
recalcitrant
palpitant
wrung
up the wall
anxiously waiting
nervously awaiting
fearfully anticipating
apprehensively expecting
hurt
mannered
artificial
ill-at-ease
aw-shucks
exacerbated
puzzled
displeased
chagrined
aggravated
pained
mortified
pestered
harried
harrowed
miffed
refractory
wasted
blasted
hopped-up
zonked
ripped
blitzed
stoned
spaced
loaded
zonked-out
spaced-out
bombed
hurried
transient
wandering
intermittent
changeable
inconstant
footloose
roving
nomadic
bustling
lacking social skills
tongue-tied
with bated breath
foreboding
mistrustful
obstinate
stubborn
overstretched
frayed
all nerves
zipped up
hot
juiced up
at fever pitch
self-doubting
unassertive
self-effacing
grieved
wiped out
pressurizedUS
pressurisedUK
old-fashioned
on the defensive
pumped-up
gutted
sad
meek
lacking confidence
unforthcoming
on the qui vive
out of countenance
shell-shocked
on the rack
saddened
not self-assured
lacking self-confidence
passive
dreading
lily-livered
running scared
having stage fright
biting nails
having butterflies
having cold feet
having a funny feeling
angst-ridden
intimidated
fearsome
cowardly
terror-stricken
discouraged
panic-stricken
abashed
horrified
stunned
cowed
funky
faint-hearted
blanched
petrified
disheartened
offended
angered
disappointed
fretted
champing at the bit
tooshie
swivel-eyed
wakeful
unsure of yourself
low
a basket case
sweating bullets
freaked-out
overwhelmed
wound-up
crazy
keyed-up
fired-up
hot-and-bothered
weary
strung-out
worn
unstrung
spent
insomniac
vague
Delphic
unassured
questioning
unpoised
verklempt
blue
unzipped
wounded
throwing a wobbly
cut up
in disorder
amazed
steamed up
flipped out
out of your mind
awake
unsleeping
having butterflies in the stomach
touch and go
up in the air
hanging by thread
on thin ice
come apart
psyched out
bummed out
broken up
at sixes and sevens
all torn up
with one's stomach in knots
with one's heart in one's mouth
in awe
scared to death
scared stiff
have cold feet
run scared
hot under collar
all shook up
insomnolent
with butterflies in one's stomach
at the end of your tether
alert
lively
rigid
disturbing
disquieting
vigilant
unsettling
without sleep
wide awake
wide-awake
attentive
unnerving
flexed
tight
spookish
spirited
irresponsible
light-headed
harebrained
skitterish
whimsical
combustible
flappable
volative
undependable
zippy
giddy
lightheaded
peppy
scatterbrained
wary
dizzy
frivolous
very nervous
unreliable
distressing
hard
worrisome
agitating
hairy
solid
tensed
firm
tightened
distressful
stretched
worrying
close
inflexible
snug
extended
tightly drawn
exciting
scary
nerve-wracking
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Past tense for to physically move from a lower to a higher place or position
elevated
lifted
lift
raised
hoisted
hoist
upraised
heightened
uplifted
hiked
boosted
heaved
hefted
upped
upheld
upholden
craned
thrust
thrusted
upheaved
uphove
uphoven
upthrusted
upturned
erected
levitated
ramped
reared
raised up
lifted up
put up
beared aloft
fetched up
hauled up
hefted up
hiked up
jacked up
raised aloft
buoyed up
held high
took up
taken up
brought up
heaved up
picked up
winched up
moved up
raised high
perked up
shot up
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