STILTED
(adj.) artificially formal
"that artificial humility that her husband hated", "contrived coyness", "a stilted letter of acknowledgment", "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
synonyms : artificial , contrived , hokeycon => corn & tri => tree.. so if you ever see a corn tree anywhere, then it must be artificial because corn trees don't exist -added by rajat jain
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Mnemonics for stilted
(Tag: ) The woman wore STILletos to the formal party to artificially increase her height.
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(Tag: stilt) Stilt refer to either of those long, slender poles (artificial legs) used to raise or elevate oneself above ground. so stilted concversations are artificial and pretentiosly formal ones.
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(Tag: ) Stilts are rods on which jokers walk to appear taller.Imagine how such a person would be.He would be stiff as he cant afford falling.
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(Tag: ) stilted sounds like steal Ted, so when someone steals your Ted (Teddy bear), you give a stilted shout.
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(Tag: ) stilted - style + tilted - its not a real style but a tilted or contrived one
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(Tag: English + Hindi = Mix) Stilted~Chill+ted;suppose that TED(a common name) is a normal guy but he wants to appear cool(derive from chill), modern,like dude etc...so his manner would be bombastic (affected) and pompous...full dikhava,ostentatiousness !
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(Tag: English) when you are stilted you are still and tilted
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(Tag: ) if u r titled, you ae obviously uneasy
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(Tag: ) imagine a drunk man when he is bombastic he musta be tilted.
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(Tag: comment) Chill-->TED-->Cool-->derived from chill-->affected--> pompous--> and Finally Pretentious? Ostentatious? GOsh!!
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(Tag: ) tilted >>> a tilted pose is not actually a natural pose, its actually an ARTIFICIAL pose taken for some photograph or something..
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(Tag: ) In stiletto 'stil' refers to artificial elevation so stilt means artificial elevation in voice.
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