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Synonyms for literary
ˈlɪt əˌrɛr ilit·er·a·ry
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
literary
Synonyms:
erudite, scholarly, studiousAntonyms:
illiterate, unscholarly, unstudious
Princeton's WordNet
literaryadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of literature
"literary criticism"
Antonyms:
informal, illiterateliteraryadjective
knowledgeable about literature
"a literary style"
Antonyms:
informal, illiterateliteraryadjective
appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
"when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"
Antonyms:
illiterate, informal
Dictionary of English Synonymes
literaryadjective
Synonyms:
of literature or learningliteraryadjective
Synonyms:
learned, lettered, bookish, well-read, book-learned
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List of paraphrases for "literary":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#968 | writing | |
#1769 | literature | |
#4904 | moral | |
#5153 | literary | |
#12616 | scholarly | |
#61109 | erudite | |
#91526 | studious |
How to use literary in a sentence?
George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans:
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950):
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-:
I want to take what Taylor Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Taylor Swift draws on richer literary traditions in Read MoreStudents songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how Read MoreStudents uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words, i'll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading Read MoreStudents songs are appropriate to all forms of writing.
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
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician. He was a literary major, and not only that - he's gifted with a brilliant voice. To me, Don could sing the New York City Yellow Pages and I'd buy it. I just love the sound of his voice.
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- الأدبيةArabic
- литературниBulgarian
- literariCatalan, Valencian
- literárníCzech
- llenyddolWelsh
- litterærDanish
- literarischGerman
- λογοτεχνικόςGreek
- literaturaEsperanto
- literarioSpanish
- ادبیPersian
- littéraireFrench
- literarioGalician
- írói, irodalmiHungarian
- letterarioItalian
- 文学Japanese
- 문학Korean
- litteraria, litterarium, litterarii, litterariae, litterariusLatin
- sasteraMalay
- literairDutch
- litterærNorwegian Nynorsk
- litterærNorwegian
- literariOccitan
- literackiPolish
- literárioPortuguese
- literari, literar, literarăRomanian
- книжный, литературныйRussian
- litterärSwedish
- ทางวรรณคดีThai
- edebîTurkish
- літературнийUkrainian
- ادبیUrdu
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