literary

comparative more literary · superlative most literary

1. Relating to literature.

   literary fame

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   a literary history

   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

2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

   a literary man

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   in the literary as well as fashionable world

   1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York

3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
5. Bookish.