Antonyms for LITERARY
ˈlɪt əˌrɛr ilit·er·a·ry

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1. literary

   Antonyms:
   illiterate, unscholarly, unstudious

   Synonyms:
   erudite, scholarly, studious

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1. literaryadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of literature

   "literary criticism"

   Antonyms:
   informal, illiterate

2. literaryadjective

   knowledgeable about literature

   "a literary style"

   Antonyms:
   informal, illiterate

3. literaryadjective

   appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing

   "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"

   Antonyms:
   illiterate, informal

How to use LITERARY in a sentence?

1. Cat Ellington:

   The style in which I express myself, poetically, is one of appreciable literary inspiration.

2. Anais Nin:

   When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

3. Christopher Heywood:

   [A] literary feat of objective narration by an Afrikaner writer was Sword in the Sand (1969), Johannes Meintjes’ narration of Gideon Scheepers’ death by summary trial and execution. In Meintjes’ hands, history enters the realm of epic narrative

4. Harold Bloom:

   I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.

5. Kaila Boulware Sykes:

   We took him there because they had hundreds of thousands of books, we wanted to give our son the experience of being in a literary playground.

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