Usually means: Artificially formal, lacking natural flow.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word stilted:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stilted: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stilted: Merriam-Webster
  3. stilted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stilted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stilted: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stilted: Vocabulary.com
  7. stilted: Wordnik
  8. stilted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stilted: Wiktionary
  10. stilted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stilted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stilted: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stilted: Dictionary.com
  14. stilted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stilted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. stilted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. stilted: Rhymezone
  18. stilted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. stilted: FreeDictionary.org
  20. stilted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stilted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. stilted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stilted: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stilted: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See stiltedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.
adjective:  (figuratively) Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.
adjective:  (architecture) Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.

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