(a.) Elevated as if on stilts; pompous; unnatural or awkward; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation\.

Gongoresque Johnsonian Latinate affected artificial aureate awkward bedizened big-sounding bloated bombastic buckram cardboard clumsy conventional convoluted cramped cumbrous declamatory decorous elephantine elevated erect euphuistic exalted flamboyant flaming flashy flatulent flaunting flowery forced formal fulsome garish gassy gaudy graceless grandiloquent grandiose grandisonant guinde halting heavy high high-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding highfalutin in buckram inflated inkhorn la-di-da labored labyrinthine leaden lexiphanic lifted lofty lumbering lurid magniloquent mannered meretricious mincing muscle-bound on stilts orotund ostentatious overblown overdone overelaborate overinvolved overwrought pedantic pompous ponderous pontifical pretentious prim raised rampant rhetorical rigid self-important sensational sensationalistic sententious sesquipedalian showy solemn sonorous starch starched stiff stuffy sublime swollen tall too-too tortuous tumid turgid ungraceful unnatural unwieldy upcast upflung uplifted upraised upreared upright upthrown wooden