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Stilted vs Stinted - What's the difference?

stilted | stinted |

As adjectives the difference between stilted and stinted

is that stilted is stiff and artificially formal while stinted is (dated) constrained; restrained; confined.

As a verb stinted is

(stint).

stilted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • stiff and artificially formal
    • He gave a stilted bow and left.
  • pompous
  • (of a building) Supported by stilts.

    • Derived terms

    * stiltedly * stiltedness

    Anagrams

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    stinted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
  • * c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
    • Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
  • * 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
    • Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
  • * 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
    • Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stint)

    • Anagrams

    * dentist