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. 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.

2. Leo Rosten:

   Humor is, I think, the sublets 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. Leo C. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.