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What is the adjective for stilted?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs stilt and stiltify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

stilted
  1. Stiff and artificially formal.
  2. Pompous.
  3. (of a building) Supported by stilts.
  4. (by extension) Unnatural, contrived, depending on unnecessary, redundant elements.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. artificial, forced, strained, unnatural, contrived, laboured, labored, awkward, constrained, unrelaxed, laborious, mincing, self-conscious, affected, stiff, mannered, feigned, fake, insincere, false, put-on, pseudo, unconvincing, phoney, simulated, pretended, mechanical, overdone, phony, hollow, pretend, studied, assumed, wooden, put on, mock, spurious, plastic, uneasy, sham, bogus, overworked, factitious, fakey, actorly, uncomfortable, theatrical, exaggerated, faked, posed … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “There were long periods with little to no dialogue, and what dialogue there was felt stilted and unnatural.”
      “He glanced toward the clearing, but my cousins and Janessa were still performing their strange, stilted dance.”
      “She nodded acquiescence to his rather stilted request for her permission to seat himself beside her.”
stilty
  1. (archaic) pompous
  2. (of a gait) uneven, as if walking on stilts
  3. resembling stilts
  4. Examples:
      5. “If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain.”
      “Down there on the stage Furtado twizzled her shiny jet ringlets around her tiny digits and wobbled off stage in her stilty white stilettos.”
stiltish
  1. Resembling stilts; stiltlike
  2. stilted; awkward
stiltlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a stilt.
stilting
  1. present participle of stilt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. elevating, lifting, raising, hoisting, upraising, heightening, uplifting, hiking, boosting, heaving, hefting, upping, upholding, craning, thrusting, upheaving, upthrusting, upturning, erecting, levitating, ramping, rearing, raising up, lifting up, putting up, bearing aloft, fetching up, hauling up, hefting up, hiking up, jacking up, raising aloft, buoying up, holding high, taking up, bringing up, heaving up, picking up, winching up, moving up, raising high, perking up, shooting up … more
stiltified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of stiltify
stiltifying
  1. present participle of stiltify
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