Synonyms for literary
ˈlɪt əˌrɛr ilit·er·a·ry

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1. literary

   Synonyms:
   erudite, scholarly, studious

   Antonyms:
   illiterate, unscholarly, unstudious

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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

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1. literaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   of literature or learning

2. literaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   learned, lettered, bookish, well-read, book-learned

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1. List of paraphrases for "literary":

   literature, moral, munhak, writing

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How to use literary in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Wachtel:

   As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing.

2. Mark Twain:

   Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

3. Henry James:

   The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

4. Paul de Man:

   The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

5. Jim Morekis:

   “From Conrad Aiken to Flannery O’Connor to Midnight, Savannah has always been a literary town. But certainly one of her most consistently excellent—and consistently underrated—writers is the man known as Aberjhani. Known for his nationally published short stories and poetry Aberjhani has received critical acclaim for his ability to encapsulate the Southern black experience in a sensitive and poignant way that’s accessible to readers of any race or region.” --from All That Jazz