Definitions for literary

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literary lit·er·ar·y

Spelling: [lit-uh-rer-ee]

IPA: /ˈlɪt əˌrɛr i/

Literary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in literary (aeilrrty).

Definitions for literary

adjective

1. pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature:
2. pertaining to authorship:
3. versed in or acquainted with literature; well-read.
4. engaged in or having the profession of literature or writing:
5. characterized by an excessive or affected display of learning; stilted; pedantic.
6. preferring books to actual experience; bookish.

Origin of literary

1640-50; Latin līterārius, litterārius of reading and writing. See letter¹, -ary

Examples for literary

Sometimes a literary or historical picture creeps into the text.

Yet Gracie had supposed him to be literary in his tastes and pursuits.

There was such a litter as always gathers around a literary man.

Ostensibly they were a literary society; really they were diamond polishers.

The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.

To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

Some literary works of Mr. Gladstone have been already noticed.

A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.