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extraliterary

extraliterary adjective: outside literature.

Adjective

extraliterary (comparative more extraliterary, superlative most extraliterary)

  1. Outside literature.
    • For all the obvious extraliterary reasons, “This Is Water” is often an extremely painful reading experience, and in this opinion I cannot imagine I will be alone.2009 April 26, Tom Bissell, “Great and Terrible Truths”, in New York Times

Forms of extraliterary

comparativemore extraliterary
superlativemost extraliterary

Origin of extraliterary

From extra- + literary.

Questions about extraliterary

What does extraliterary mean?
Extraliterary means outside literature.
What part of speech is extraliterary?
Extraliterary is an adjective.

Words near extraliterary in the dictionary

  1. extralinguistic
  2. extralinguistically
  3. extraliposomal
  4. extraliposome
  5. extralite
  6. extraliterary
  7. extrality
  8. extralobar
  9. extralobular
  10. extralocal
  11. extralocally

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