| Mannered 1. (a.) Having a certain way of carrying and conducting one's self; also artificial or stilted. 2. (a.) Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. Thesaurus Entries Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allusive, artificial, behaved, behavioral, behaviored, behaviorist, behavioristic, conscious, contrived, demeanored, elaborate, elaborated, euphuistic, figurative, figured, flowery, high-hat, highfalutin, histrionic, hoity-toity, hyperelegant, hypocritical, insincere, la-di-da, maniere, metaphorical, ornamented, overacted, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined, pompous, posed, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretentious, pseudo, referential, stagy, stiff, stilted, studied, theatrical, trolatitious, tropological, unnatural |