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uniliterary

uniliterary adjective: having a single, straightforward interpretation.

Adjective

uniliterary (comparative more uniliterary, superlative most uniliterary)

  1. Having a single, straightforward interpretation.
    • Even after the theater, as it had existed in pagan Rome, had been banned by the Church and classical culture had all but disappeared, the descendants of the old mimes continued to travel about Europe entertaining the masses with their rough, uniliterary and unsophisticated art.1983, Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, Regulating society: marginality and social control in historical perspective, page 68
    • Tilley, while at times highly critical of the preclassical writer, does pay him homage for his real achievements: The dramatic superiority of the uniliterary production over the tragedies of the sixteenth century appears in various ways.1984, Michael G. Paulson, Alexandre Hardy, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Cervantes, Hardy and La Fuerza de la Sangre, page 15

Forms of uniliterary

comparativemore uniliterary
superlativemost uniliterary

Origin of uniliterary

From uni- + literary.

Questions about uniliterary

What does uniliterary mean?
Uniliterary means having a single, straightforward interpretation.
What part of speech is uniliterary?
Uniliterary is an adjective.

Words near uniliterary in the dictionary

  1. unilingually
  2. unilinguals
  3. unilinguist
  4. unilinguists
  5. uniliteral
  6. uniliterary
  7. unilluded
  8. unillumed
  9. unilluminable
  10. unilluminated
  11. unilluminating

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