Definitions for stilted

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stilted stilt·ed

Spelling: [stil-tid]

IPA: /ˈstɪl tɪd/

Stilted is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in stilted (deilstt).

Definitions for stilted

noun

1. one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
2. one of several posts supporting a structure built above the surface of land or water.
3. Ceramics. a three-armed support for an object being fired.
4. any of several white-and-black wading birds, especially Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and Himantopus himantopus, having long, bright pink legs and a long, slender black bill.
5. British Dialect. a plow handle. a crutch.

adjective

1. stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
2. Architecture. (of an arch) resting on imposts treated in part as downward continuations of the arch.

verb (used with object)

1. to raise on or as if on stilts.

Origin of stilted

First recorded in 1610-20; stilt + -ed³

Examples for stilted

The result is nothing extraordinary, but feels awkward and stilted.

As a debate, this was a sideshow, 90 minutes of stilted silliness, an intermission interrupting the real deal.

No, my stilted, stiff-laigged sheep of the mountain, we ain't got no ice.'

The arches are cusped like the windows, but are stilted and segmental.

The letter of congratulation must be natural, not stilted, and must be sincere.

Complete with stilted dialogue and cringe-worthy background music, the whole thing would be laughable were it not so terrifying.

But the stilted dialogue and bizarre narrative conceits pale in comparison with some of the sacrilege being committed here.

He is not nearly so composed as Shadwell, and his voice has a strange and stilted sound.

She was evidently infected by the stilted manner of her ridiculous lover.

It is glorious in its stilted awkwardness, and should be cherished.