STILTED Synonyms

• contrived by art rather than nature

• artificially formal

• not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

• lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

• causing inconvenience

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• showing effects of planning or manipulation

• artificially formal

• produced by or subjected to forcing

• forced or compelled

• made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency

• lacking spontaneity; not natural

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• lacking natural ease

• requiring or showing effort

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• an ordinary man

• the dead body of a human being

• to a great degree

• in a stiff manner

• not moving or operating freely

• strong, vigorous

• rigidly formal

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• very drunk

• not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature

• not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

• speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

• made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood

• lacking ease or grace

• long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

• long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

• a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

• the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

• a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

• arrange in stacks

• press tightly together or cram

• place or lay as if in a pile

• a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

• a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

• a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask

• long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

• long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia

• long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

• long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons