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say it: STIL-tid
stilted is an adjective meaning "artificially formal". It is pronounced /ˈstɪltɪd/ — STIL-tid. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stilted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.