Definition of literary in English:

literary

adjective ˈlɪt(ə)(rə)riˈlɪdəˌrɛri

1attributive Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form.
the great literary works of the nineteenth century
Example sentencesExamples
- Having a piece selected for this anthology is perhaps the highest honour a literary magazine can receive.
- Although it is a form of literary study, it is not a form of literary scholarship.
- This is a loss for literary study and writers, as challenges by peers create and motivate new poems.
- These ideas have gained a lot of currency in the study of literary genres.
- It could be interpreted as literary criticism - and it is certainly causing a stink.
- I do not object to this accolade on the grounds that Edinburgh has little literary tradition.
- For some years I had been publishing poems in small literary magazines.
- Some of them were published in a few magazines, including some literary journals.
- The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful.
- Train tracks and trains themselves have long signified both real and metaphorical journeys in African American literary and vernacular culture.
- Recipients range from preeminent national museums to small literary magazines that could not survive without subsidies.
- But the film medium has always had difficulty in translating effects that are quintessentially literary.
- This point can be made another way by considering Orwell's place in a growing field of literary studies.
- Is the on-line talk abstract emerging as a new literary genre?
- Eventually, he found an agent after one of his short stories was published in a literary magazine.
- Their goal in writing a commentary with a distinct literary concern is refreshing.
- There is an acknowledged double standard in how we view a prolific genre writer and a fruitful literary author.
- The second broad topic of dissension concerns the modes of analysis in literary and cultural studies.
- None of this interested Forster or, for that matter, most literary scholars of the past 25 years.
- By contrast, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and other writers in Russia's great literary tradition fully understood this responsibility.
Synonyms
written
poetic, artistic, dramatic
published, printed, in print
1. 1.1 Concerned with literature as a profession.
  the newspaper's literary editor
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years.
  But then it was read by the literary editor of the Washington Post, who was amazed by what he saw.
  So many of us in the literary and academic worlds who knew him only casually still felt as if he was a friend and colleague.
  However, his knowledge of the broader literary picture takes second place to his late friend's reputation.
  The literary artist in a similar manner makes use of words and sounds to convey his impression of life.
  She is described by her sister as the artistic, dramatic, literary one in the family.
  Your literary agent is the book-marketing expert who can sell your crafted words to jaded publishing professionals.
  Privately, many figures in the literary world were also foaming at the mouth.
  You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway.
  In the second half of the 19th century, a group of literary figures became identified as Symbolists.
  He adds that he recently had dinner with a literary editor and a book reviewer and they both felt the same way.
  Considered to be an immense literary figure, he earned his place in history with a simple tearjerker.
  Writers and literary academics have never been closer, and never further apart.
  By this time he was already writing and forming literary and artistic friendships.
  The support of leading literary figures, Burns scholars and leading entertainers lent weight to the cause.
  He felt that the genius of literary artists was documented in their openness to the unusual.
  I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles.
  Sometimes a creative writer may be forced by circumstances into the position of literary academic.
  This suspicion of being enemy agents was, so far as literary men were concerned, no novelty.
  She was arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for The Spectator during the Sixties.
  Synonyms
  scholarly, learned, intellectual, cultured, erudite, bookish, highbrow, studious, cerebral, lettered, academic, cultivated, civilized
  well read, widely read, knowledgeable, educated, well educated
  informal brainy
2(of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect.
the script was too literary
Example sentencesExamples
- Yes, I do feel if Urdu has to survive as a literary language it has to increase its vocabulary.
- Our long list, short list and eventual choice of winner reflected our estimate of literary quality and nothing else.
- This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language.
- But few of them would make claims for the literary value of those texts.
- Books of educative and literary value are kept in libraries for prisoners having an academic bent of mind.
- The contents and literary character of the Koran defy brief categorization.
- The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case.
- Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality.
- Alas, the story is not only unverified but has a suspiciously literary quality about it.
- For the love of all that is literary, please stop writing.
- He is chiefly concerned with literary fiction, but the same danger exists in every other genre.
- Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style?
- It was only much later that the Authorized Version came to be praised for its literary qualities.
- His language is very accessible as it is closer to the speaking rather than the literary language.
- The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects.
- You cannot help notice the remarkable literary, almost lyrical, quality about the work.
- It is of high literary quality, showing the master's great skill at phrasing subtle ideas and word-play.
- The effectiveness of a cabaret song depends only partly on the literary quality of its text.
- We may admire most of the literary qualities and disapprove of only a few in the course of the novel.
- Apart from their literary qualities, his publications were famed for a high standard of typography and binding.
Synonyms
formal, written
poetic, dramatic, dignified, solemn
elaborate, ornate, flowery, purple

Derivatives

literarily

adverb ˈlɪtərərɪliˈlɪdəˌrɛrəli

One reason for believing the reports are fictions is that apocalypses seem to allude literarily to previous apocalypses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the editors would rather they made an impact (intellectually, literarily, politically - whatever the focus of the journal) than had more customers.
- This section of Uptown Waterloo offers all kinds of weekend diversions for any sort of person, and, for the more literarily inclined, a ripe treasure trove of excellent bookstores.
- More ambitious both literarily and graphically, it makes for the better read.
- Authors such as William Faulkner, William Styron, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Spencer, to name just a few, have been attracted both personally and literarily to Southern Europe.

literariness

noun

In fact, though, the novel's real interest is in its own literariness.
Example sentencesExamples
- The counterpart of a culture's national individuality in its literature is originality, the definitive marker of literariness.
- The result is a sense of the literariness of French.
- Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature.
- This displacement seems also to occur in this discussion, were it not for the fact that its theoretical insights respond to the novel's complex negotiation of literariness.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'relating to the letters of the alphabet'): from Latin litterarius, from littera (see letter).

Definition of literary in US English:

literary

adjectiveˈlɪdəˌrɛriˈlidəˌrerē

1attributive Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form.
the great literary works of the nineteenth century
Example sentencesExamples
- This point can be made another way by considering Orwell's place in a growing field of literary studies.
- It could be interpreted as literary criticism - and it is certainly causing a stink.
- The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful.
- But the film medium has always had difficulty in translating effects that are quintessentially literary.
- None of this interested Forster or, for that matter, most literary scholars of the past 25 years.
- I do not object to this accolade on the grounds that Edinburgh has little literary tradition.
- Some of them were published in a few magazines, including some literary journals.
- The second broad topic of dissension concerns the modes of analysis in literary and cultural studies.
- Having a piece selected for this anthology is perhaps the highest honour a literary magazine can receive.
- There is an acknowledged double standard in how we view a prolific genre writer and a fruitful literary author.
- Train tracks and trains themselves have long signified both real and metaphorical journeys in African American literary and vernacular culture.
- This is a loss for literary study and writers, as challenges by peers create and motivate new poems.
- Is the on-line talk abstract emerging as a new literary genre?
- Recipients range from preeminent national museums to small literary magazines that could not survive without subsidies.
- Their goal in writing a commentary with a distinct literary concern is refreshing.
- For some years I had been publishing poems in small literary magazines.
- Although it is a form of literary study, it is not a form of literary scholarship.
- Eventually, he found an agent after one of his short stories was published in a literary magazine.
- These ideas have gained a lot of currency in the study of literary genres.
- By contrast, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and other writers in Russia's great literary tradition fully understood this responsibility.
Synonyms
written
1. 1.1 Concerned with literature as a profession.
  it was signed by such literary figures as Maya Angelou
  Example sentencesExamples
  Privately, many figures in the literary world were also foaming at the mouth.
  He felt that the genius of literary artists was documented in their openness to the unusual.
  Writers and literary academics have never been closer, and never further apart.
  By this time he was already writing and forming literary and artistic friendships.
  You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway.
  This suspicion of being enemy agents was, so far as literary men were concerned, no novelty.
  Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years.
  The literary artist in a similar manner makes use of words and sounds to convey his impression of life.
  The support of leading literary figures, Burns scholars and leading entertainers lent weight to the cause.
  Your literary agent is the book-marketing expert who can sell your crafted words to jaded publishing professionals.
  However, his knowledge of the broader literary picture takes second place to his late friend's reputation.
  Sometimes a creative writer may be forced by circumstances into the position of literary academic.
  Considered to be an immense literary figure, he earned his place in history with a simple tearjerker.
  He adds that he recently had dinner with a literary editor and a book reviewer and they both felt the same way.
  But then it was read by the literary editor of the Washington Post, who was amazed by what he saw.
  In the second half of the 19th century, a group of literary figures became identified as Symbolists.
  She is described by her sister as the artistic, dramatic, literary one in the family.
  So many of us in the literary and academic worlds who knew him only casually still felt as if he was a friend and colleague.
  I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles.
  She was arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for The Spectator during the Sixties.
  Synonyms
  scholarly, learned, intellectual, cultured, erudite, bookish, highbrow, studious, cerebral, lettered, academic, cultivated, civilized
2(of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect.
Example sentencesExamples
- For the love of all that is literary, please stop writing.
- You cannot help notice the remarkable literary, almost lyrical, quality about the work.
- It was only much later that the Authorized Version came to be praised for its literary qualities.
- The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects.
- Our long list, short list and eventual choice of winner reflected our estimate of literary quality and nothing else.
- The effectiveness of a cabaret song depends only partly on the literary quality of its text.
- His language is very accessible as it is closer to the speaking rather than the literary language.
- He is chiefly concerned with literary fiction, but the same danger exists in every other genre.
- Yes, I do feel if Urdu has to survive as a literary language it has to increase its vocabulary.
- Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality.
- Alas, the story is not only unverified but has a suspiciously literary quality about it.
- This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language.
- It is of high literary quality, showing the master's great skill at phrasing subtle ideas and word-play.
- We may admire most of the literary qualities and disapprove of only a few in the course of the novel.
- But few of them would make claims for the literary value of those texts.
- Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style?
- The contents and literary character of the Koran defy brief categorization.
- The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case.
- Books of educative and literary value are kept in libraries for prisoners having an academic bent of mind.
- Apart from their literary qualities, his publications were famed for a high standard of typography and binding.
Synonyms
formal, written

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘relating to the letters of the alphabet’): from Latin litterarius, from littera (see letter).

单词	literary
释义	Definition of literary in English: literary adjective ˈlɪt(ə)(rə)riˈlɪdəˌrɛri 1attributive Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form. the great literary works of the nineteenth century Example sentencesExamples Having a piece selected for this anthology is perhaps the highest honour a literary magazine can receive. Although it is a form of literary study, it is not a form of literary scholarship. This is a loss for literary study and writers, as challenges by peers create and motivate new poems. These ideas have gained a lot of currency in the study of literary genres. It could be interpreted as literary criticism - and it is certainly causing a stink. I do not object to this accolade on the grounds that Edinburgh has little literary tradition. For some years I had been publishing poems in small literary magazines. Some of them were published in a few magazines, including some literary journals. The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful. Train tracks and trains themselves have long signified both real and metaphorical journeys in African American literary and vernacular culture. Recipients range from preeminent national museums to small literary magazines that could not survive without subsidies. But the film medium has always had difficulty in translating effects that are quintessentially literary. This point can be made another way by considering Orwell's place in a growing field of literary studies. Is the on-line talk abstract emerging as a new literary genre? Eventually, he found an agent after one of his short stories was published in a literary magazine. Their goal in writing a commentary with a distinct literary concern is refreshing. There is an acknowledged double standard in how we view a prolific genre writer and a fruitful literary author. The second broad topic of dissension concerns the modes of analysis in literary and cultural studies. None of this interested Forster or, for that matter, most literary scholars of the past 25 years. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and other writers in Russia's great literary tradition fully understood this responsibility. Synonyms written poetic, artistic, dramatic published, printed, in print 1.1 Concerned with literature as a profession. the newspaper's literary editor Example sentencesExamples Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years. But then it was read by the literary editor of the Washington Post, who was amazed by what he saw. So many of us in the literary and academic worlds who knew him only casually still felt as if he was a friend and colleague. However, his knowledge of the broader literary picture takes second place to his late friend's reputation. The literary artist in a similar manner makes use of words and sounds to convey his impression of life. She is described by her sister as the artistic, dramatic, literary one in the family. Your literary agent is the book-marketing expert who can sell your crafted words to jaded publishing professionals. Privately, many figures in the literary world were also foaming at the mouth. You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway. In the second half of the 19th century, a group of literary figures became identified as Symbolists. He adds that he recently had dinner with a literary editor and a book reviewer and they both felt the same way. Considered to be an immense literary figure, he earned his place in history with a simple tearjerker. Writers and literary academics have never been closer, and never further apart. By this time he was already writing and forming literary and artistic friendships. The support of leading literary figures, Burns scholars and leading entertainers lent weight to the cause. He felt that the genius of literary artists was documented in their openness to the unusual. I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles. Sometimes a creative writer may be forced by circumstances into the position of literary academic. This suspicion of being enemy agents was, so far as literary men were concerned, no novelty. She was arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for The Spectator during the Sixties. Synonyms scholarly, learned, intellectual, cultured, erudite, bookish, highbrow, studious, cerebral, lettered, academic, cultivated, civilized well read, widely read, knowledgeable, educated, well educated informal brainy 2(of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect. the script was too literary Example sentencesExamples Yes, I do feel if Urdu has to survive as a literary language it has to increase its vocabulary. Our long list, short list and eventual choice of winner reflected our estimate of literary quality and nothing else. This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language. But few of them would make claims for the literary value of those texts. Books of educative and literary value are kept in libraries for prisoners having an academic bent of mind. The contents and literary character of the Koran defy brief categorization. The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case. Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality. Alas, the story is not only unverified but has a suspiciously literary quality about it. For the love of all that is literary, please stop writing. He is chiefly concerned with literary fiction, but the same danger exists in every other genre. Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style? It was only much later that the Authorized Version came to be praised for its literary qualities. His language is very accessible as it is closer to the speaking rather than the literary language. The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects. You cannot help notice the remarkable literary, almost lyrical, quality about the work. It is of high literary quality, showing the master's great skill at phrasing subtle ideas and word-play. The effectiveness of a cabaret song depends only partly on the literary quality of its text. We may admire most of the literary qualities and disapprove of only a few in the course of the novel. Apart from their literary qualities, his publications were famed for a high standard of typography and binding. Synonyms formal, written poetic, dramatic, dignified, solemn elaborate, ornate, flowery, purple Derivatives literarily adverb ˈlɪtərərɪliˈlɪdəˌrɛrəli One reason for believing the reports are fictions is that apocalypses seem to allude literarily to previous apocalypses. Example sentencesExamples Most of the editors would rather they made an impact (intellectually, literarily, politically - whatever the focus of the journal) than had more customers. This section of Uptown Waterloo offers all kinds of weekend diversions for any sort of person, and, for the more literarily inclined, a ripe treasure trove of excellent bookstores. More ambitious both literarily and graphically, it makes for the better read. Authors such as William Faulkner, William Styron, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Spencer, to name just a few, have been attracted both personally and literarily to Southern Europe. literariness noun In fact, though, the novel's real interest is in its own literariness. Example sentencesExamples The counterpart of a culture's national individuality in its literature is originality, the definitive marker of literariness. The result is a sense of the literariness of French. Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature. This displacement seems also to occur in this discussion, were it not for the fact that its theoretical insights respond to the novel's complex negotiation of literariness. Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'relating to the letters of the alphabet'): from Latin litterarius, from littera (see letter). Definition of literary in US English: literary adjectiveˈlɪdəˌrɛriˈlidəˌrerē 1attributive Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form. the great literary works of the nineteenth century Example sentencesExamples This point can be made another way by considering Orwell's place in a growing field of literary studies. It could be interpreted as literary criticism - and it is certainly causing a stink. The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful. But the film medium has always had difficulty in translating effects that are quintessentially literary. None of this interested Forster or, for that matter, most literary scholars of the past 25 years. I do not object to this accolade on the grounds that Edinburgh has little literary tradition. Some of them were published in a few magazines, including some literary journals. The second broad topic of dissension concerns the modes of analysis in literary and cultural studies. Having a piece selected for this anthology is perhaps the highest honour a literary magazine can receive. There is an acknowledged double standard in how we view a prolific genre writer and a fruitful literary author. Train tracks and trains themselves have long signified both real and metaphorical journeys in African American literary and vernacular culture. This is a loss for literary study and writers, as challenges by peers create and motivate new poems. Is the on-line talk abstract emerging as a new literary genre? Recipients range from preeminent national museums to small literary magazines that could not survive without subsidies. Their goal in writing a commentary with a distinct literary concern is refreshing. For some years I had been publishing poems in small literary magazines. Although it is a form of literary study, it is not a form of literary scholarship. Eventually, he found an agent after one of his short stories was published in a literary magazine. These ideas have gained a lot of currency in the study of literary genres. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and other writers in Russia's great literary tradition fully understood this responsibility. Synonyms written 1.1 Concerned with literature as a profession. it was signed by such literary figures as Maya Angelou Example sentencesExamples Privately, many figures in the literary world were also foaming at the mouth. He felt that the genius of literary artists was documented in their openness to the unusual. Writers and literary academics have never been closer, and never further apart. By this time he was already writing and forming literary and artistic friendships. You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway. This suspicion of being enemy agents was, so far as literary men were concerned, no novelty. Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years. The literary artist in a similar manner makes use of words and sounds to convey his impression of life. The support of leading literary figures, Burns scholars and leading entertainers lent weight to the cause. Your literary agent is the book-marketing expert who can sell your crafted words to jaded publishing professionals. However, his knowledge of the broader literary picture takes second place to his late friend's reputation. Sometimes a creative writer may be forced by circumstances into the position of literary academic. Considered to be an immense literary figure, he earned his place in history with a simple tearjerker. He adds that he recently had dinner with a literary editor and a book reviewer and they both felt the same way. But then it was read by the literary editor of the Washington Post, who was amazed by what he saw. In the second half of the 19th century, a group of literary figures became identified as Symbolists. She is described by her sister as the artistic, dramatic, literary one in the family. So many of us in the literary and academic worlds who knew him only casually still felt as if he was a friend and colleague. I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles. She was arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for The Spectator during the Sixties. Synonyms scholarly, learned, intellectual, cultured, erudite, bookish, highbrow, studious, cerebral, lettered, academic, cultivated, civilized 2(of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect. Example sentencesExamples For the love of all that is literary, please stop writing. You cannot help notice the remarkable literary, almost lyrical, quality about the work. It was only much later that the Authorized Version came to be praised for its literary qualities. The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects. Our long list, short list and eventual choice of winner reflected our estimate of literary quality and nothing else. The effectiveness of a cabaret song depends only partly on the literary quality of its text. His language is very accessible as it is closer to the speaking rather than the literary language. He is chiefly concerned with literary fiction, but the same danger exists in every other genre. Yes, I do feel if Urdu has to survive as a literary language it has to increase its vocabulary. Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality. Alas, the story is not only unverified but has a suspiciously literary quality about it. This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language. It is of high literary quality, showing the master's great skill at phrasing subtle ideas and word-play. We may admire most of the literary qualities and disapprove of only a few in the course of the novel. But few of them would make claims for the literary value of those texts. Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style? The contents and literary character of the Koran defy brief categorization. The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case. Books of educative and literary value are kept in libraries for prisoners having an academic bent of mind. Apart from their literary qualities, his publications were famed for a high standard of typography and binding. Synonyms formal, written Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘relating to the letters of the alphabet’): from Latin litterarius, from littera (see letter).
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