literary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing

   They hoped to impress their professor by speaking in an affected literary style.

2. 2
   adj

   knowledgeable about literature

   a literary style

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to or characteristic of literature

   literary criticism

4. 4
   adj

   Relating to literature.

   literary fame

5. 5
   adj

   Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

   a literary man

6. 6
   adj

   Knowledgeable of literature or writing.

7. 7
   adj

   Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.

8. 8
   adj

   Bookish.

Etymology

From French littéraire.