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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Stiffly or artificially formal; stiff.
  2. adj. Architecture Having some vertical length between the impost and the beginning of the curve. Used of an arch.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Elevated, as if on stilts; hence, pompous; inflated; formal; stiff and bombastic: said especially of language: as, a stilted mode of expression; a stilted style.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. stiff and artificially formal
  2. adj. pompous
  3. adj. of a building Supported by stilts.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. artificially formal

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