Clues for the word "STILTED"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 35 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 24, 2026.
Definition of stilted
- imp. & p. p. - of Stilt
- a. - Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
Referring Clues
- Overly formal
- Wooden
- Unnatural-sounding
- Stiffly formal
- Pompous
- Overly formal, as writing
- Stiff and pompous
- Awkwardly formal
- Artificially formal
- Wooden in manner
- Not natural
- Like awkwardly formal speech
- Stiffly phrased
- Contrived
- Clumsily written
- Awkwardly written
- Stiffly dignified, as prose
- Affected
- Like a circus performer who gets high?
- A bird with extended wings is not natural
- Old Bob's inclined to be pompous
- Up in the air as start of seminar's one-sided
- Pompous knights finally unseated in joust
- Unnatural eateries?
- Bombastic (of speech, writing)
- Unnatural sounding and overformal
- Hardly natural-sounding
- Unnatural-sounding and over-formal
- Son inclined to be awkward
- Stiff, as writing
- Awkward when trying to gain height thus?
- School head inclined to be formal in conversation
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2018
- Wall Street Journal - June 10, 2017
- Universal - November 22, 2016
- Universal - November 18, 2016
- LA Times - October 01, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - September 23, 2016
- Family Time - June 06, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 17, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 13, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 06, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - November 06, 2014
- Universal - July 17, 2013
- Universal - October 26, 2012
- New York Times - September 05, 2011
- Guardian Quick - May 23, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - March 07, 2011
- Washington Post - February 25, 2011
- Netword - January 15, 2011
- LA Times - June 16, 2010
- LA Times - June 14, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 17, 2010
- Universal - October 20, 2009
- Netword - July 26, 2009
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 07, 2008
- USA Today - July 09, 2007
- Netword - June 29, 2005
- Washington Post - October 04, 2004
- And in 5 more crossword puzzles...