literary
UK/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi//ˈlɪt.əˌɹɛɹ.i/
literary adjective: relating to literature.
Adjective
literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)
- Relating to literature.
- literary fame
- a literary history
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- a literary man
- in the literary as well as fashionable world1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Bookish.
literary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
literary in Hindi
- relating to literature
- साहित्यिक sāhityik
- relating to writers, or the profession of literature
- साहित्यिक sāhityik
literary in Tamil
- இலக்கிய வழக்கான, இலக்கியஞ்சார்ந்த, இலக்கியத் தொடர்பான, இலக்கியம் சார்ந்த
literary in Marathi
- साहित्यिक
literary in Urdu
- relating to literature
- اَدَبی adabī
More languagesFewer languages
- literary in Bengali
- সাহিত্যানুগ, সাহিত্যসেবী, সাহিতি্যক, পুঁথিগত
- literary in Telugu
- సాహితీ
- literary in Malayalam
- സാഹിത്യ sāhitya
- literary in Kannada
- ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ, ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಕ, ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಂಬಂಧಿ
- literary in Punjabi
- ਅਦਬੀ adabī
- literary in Gujarati
- સાહિત્યિક
- literary in Odia
- ସାହିତ୍ଯ଼ିକ
- literary in Sanskrit
- साहित्य sāhitya
- literary in Nepali
- साहित्यिक
- literary in Tagalog
- pampanitikan
- literary in Arabic
- أَدَبِيّ ʔadabiyy
- literary in Malay
- sastera
- literary in Vietnamese
- văn học, văn chương, văn hoa
Examples of literary in a sentence
- literary conversation
- He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare:
Synonyms of literary
Forms of literary
| comparative | more literary |
|---|---|
| superlative | most literary |
Origin of literary
From French littéraire.
Words formed from literary
- antiliterary
- cyberliterary
- extraliterary
- hyperliterary
- lego-literary
- literarily
- literariness
- literarist
- literary agent
- literary criticism
- literary device
- literary executor
- literary fiction
- literary form
- literary genre
- literary inquisition
- literaryism
- literary journalism
- literary language
- literary present
- literary science
- literary technique
- literary theory
- literary tourism
- litRPG
- metaliterary
- nonliterary
- overliterary
- postliterary
- preliterary
- pseudoliterary
- subliterary
- technoliterary
- uniliterary
- unliterary
Phrases with literary
Questions about literary
- What does literary mean?
- Literary means relating to literature.
- What is literary in Hindi?
- Literary in Hindi is साहित्यिक (sāhityik). See Literary meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use literary in a sentence?
- literary conversation
- What part of speech is literary?
- Literary is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce literary?
- Literary is pronounced /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near literary in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: literary (page history and authors); literary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); literary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); literary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਦਬੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); literary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); साहित्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); literary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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