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单词 unliterary
释义

unliterary

adjective

un·​lit·​er·​ary ˌən-ˈli-tə-ˌrer-ē How to pronounce unliterary (audio)
: not literary
D. H. Lawrence died in March 1930, when I was just 13 years old and too unliterary to notice. Anthony Burgess
Mr. Singer was a modest man with an unassuming and unliterary style of life: he liked to wear plain business suits and he preferred dairy restaurants to writers' bars. Eric Pace

Synonyms

  • colloquial
  • conversational
  • informal
  • nonformal
  • nonliterary
  • unbookish
  • vernacular
  • vulgar
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The bond between Alice and the spiky, decidedly unliterary Felix might flummox. New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021 Both were born as writers in public libraries—hyper-bright American Jewish urban boys from unliterary backgrounds, encountering the classics on their own, without too much pre-sorting, responding with delight, imitation, amusement, and familiarity. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

unliterary

adjective

as in colloquial
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing poems written in a natural, unliterary voice

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • colloquial
  • vernacular
  • nonliterary
  • informal
  • vulgar
  • nonformal
  • dialectical
  • unbookish
  • conversational
  • dialectal
  • slang
  • dialectic
  • ungrammatical
  • nonstandard
  • regional
  • uneducated
  • substandard
  • incorrect
  • slangy
  • nongrammatical
  • unlearned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • literary
  • formal
  • bookish
  • standard
  • learned
  • grammatical
  • proper
  • correct
  • undialectical
  • genteel
  • educated
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