literary
li tuh re ree
- a of or relating to or characteristic of literature
literary criticism - s knowledgeable about literature
a literary style - s appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style
- Random House had so many literary children it didn't know what to do.
- As a resident, Novelist David Kaufelt (Six Months with an Older Woman) is fond of explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea.
- Author and literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki manages to get German TV viewers enthralled about books.