literary
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Etymology
From French littéraire.
Pronunciation
Adjective
literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)
- Relating to literature.
- literary fame
- a literary history
- literary conversation
- c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare:
- He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- a literary man
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York:
- in the literary as well as fashionable world
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Bookish.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- antiliterary
- cyberliterary
- extraliterary
- hyperliterary
- lego-literary
- literarily
- literariness
- literarist
- literary agent
- literary criticism
- literary device
- literary executor
- literary fiction
- literary form
- literary genre
- literary inquisition
- literaryism
- literary journalism
- literary language
- literary present
- literary science
- literary technique
- literary theory
- litRPG
- metaliterary
- nonliterary
- overliterary
- postliterary
- preliterary
- pseudoliterary
- subliterary
- technoliterary
- uniliterary
- unliterary
Related terms
Translations
relating to literature
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relating to writers, or the profession of literature
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knowledgeable of literature or writing
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appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing
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bookish — see bookish
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Further reading
- “literary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “literary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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