Artfully decked or adorned; dressed up.

= pedantic, adj.

depreciative. Esp. of a literary work or writing style: excessively elaborate, affected, or punctilious; not spontaneous or fluent; overwrought…

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a pedant; characterized by or exhibiting pedantry; exaggeratedly or absurdly learned.

Of something produced or constructed: entailing labour in production or execution; produced by or resulting from hard work. Formerly also: †causing…

Formal, constrained, lacking ease or grace. Of style, diction, etc.: lacking ease and grace; laboured, formal pedantic.

Of a word: long, polysyllabic; (hence) difficult, learned, esp. as used in a showy or grandiose manner. Of language or a text: that uses such…

= stilted, adj. 2.

Characterized by stiltedness.

Excessively elaborate; over-laboured. Also (occasionally) figurative.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

figurative. = stiltish, adj.

Characteristic of the foreign-language textbooks of Ollendorff of his methodology for learning foreign languages; (also, more widely) representing…

Literary in a studied or affected way.

figurative. Of (or in reference to) language or style (or, rarely, manner or deportment): artificially or affectedly lofty; unnaturally elevated…

Epithet of a variety of medieval Latin, of which Hisperica Famina (probably of the 6th century) is a notable example, characterized by a highly…