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. Leo Rosten:

   Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

2. Isaac D?Israeli:

   Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

3. Joseph Conrad:

   As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

4. Gordana Biernat:

   SOUND vibrations of your words affect the space around them. You literary TOUCH others with what you say.

5. Harold Nye:

   Our book will be bringing some new information to light, it's very compelling information. We don't draw any conclusions. We don't take any literary license. We just present facts.

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