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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1. Vanna Bonta:

   It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

2. 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

3. Brooke Shields:

   [ My mom ] was like, ‘ Do you want to put on these jeans and do a commercial ? ’ it was going to be [ a lot of ] wordplay, or historical and literary references. There was a real intellectual spin on how they were going to produce [ the ads ]. Nobody was allowed on set. Because it was Avedon’s first foray into the commercial world. I think he was pretty nervous. Stakes were pretty high and I think there was a lot of pressure. We did multiple, multiple takes of everything.

4. 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.

5. Chris Chinnock:

   We do know that Roman Empire relied quite heavily on slave labor. Roman Empire underpinned much of Roman Empire throughout history. And Roman Empire was true of Roman Britain as well. We have lots of literary evidence from wood, writing tablets and stone carvings.