literary

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/(UK)
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/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/(UK) · /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹi/(UK) · /ˈlɪt.əˌɹɛɹ.i/(US) · [ˈɫɪɾ.əˌɹɛɹ.i](US)

Definition of literary

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Relating to literature.
    “literary fame”
    “a literary history”
    “literary conversation”
    “He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.”
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adj

  1. Relating to literature.
    “literary fame”
    “a literary history”
    “literary conversation”
    “He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.”
  2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
    “a literary man”
    “in the literary as well as fashionable world”
  3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
  4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
  5. Bookish.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From French littéraire.

Anagrams of literary

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