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stilted

Main Entry:
stilted [stil-tid]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artificial, pretentious
Synonyms: affected, angular, aureate, bombastic, constrained, decorous, egotistic, euphuistic, flowery, forced, formal, genteel, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, labored, magniloquent, mincing, overblown, pedantic, pompous, prim, rhetorical, sonorous, stiff, unnatural, wooden
Antonyms: genuine, honest, true
Main Entry: brittle
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tense
Synonyms: curt, edgy, irritable, nervous, prim, short, stiff, stilted
Antonyms: relaxed, resilient
Main Entry: formal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stiff, affected, correct
Synonyms: aloof, by the numbers, ceremonious, conventional, decorous, distant, exact, nominal, playing the game, polite, precise, prim, punctilious, reserved, seemly, sententious, starched, stilted, straight arrow, stuffy, unbending
Antonyms: customary, informal, normal, relaxed, unaffected
Main Entry: mannered
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affected, put-on
Synonyms: airish, apish, artificial, artsy, campy, chichi*, conscious, gone Hollywood, highfaluting, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, stuck up, unnatural
Antonyms: natural, unpretentious
Main Entry: mincing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affected, pretentious
Synonyms: artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, la-di-da, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, too-too, unnatural
Antonyms: extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: pedantic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bookish, precise
Synonyms: abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted
Antonyms: imprecise, informal
Main Entry: ponderous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dreary, tedious
Synonyms: arid, barren, cardboard, dry, dull, heavy, humdrum*, labored, lifeless, long-winded, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, prolix, stiff*, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, vapid, verbose, wooden
Antonyms: fun, light
Main Entry: pretentious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: snobbish, conceited
Synonyms: affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious
Antonyms: humble, modest, unconceited
Main Entry: prudish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy and strict in behavior
Synonyms: Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square, squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress
Antonyms: bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing
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