Literary Synonyms and Antonyms

lĭtə-rĕrē
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bookish
  2. belletristic
  3. inkhorn
  4. pedantic
  5. arcane
  6. academic
  7. anthologized
  8. donnish
  9. augustan
  10. formalistic
  11. scholarly
  12. educated
  13. erudite
  14. pedantical
  15. intellectual
  16. lettered
  17. scholastic
  18. versed
Antonyms:
  1. illiterate
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. anthologize
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. ana
  2. analecta
  3. analects
  4. anthology
  5. belles-lettres
  6. cameo
  7. chrestomathy
  8. classics
  9. collectanea
  10. digest
  11. drama
  12. excerpt
  13. feuilleton
  14. literature
  15. miscellanea

Words Related to Literary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. learned
  2. attitude
  3. flexible
  4. teach
  5. literary-criticism
  6. shakespearean
  7. historical
  8. poetry
  9. travel-literature
  10. contemporary
  11. philosophical
  12. poetic
  13. prose-fiction
  14. poetical
  15. poetics

Literary Sentence Examples

  • This year may be taken as the beginning of his literary activity and public life.

  • In addition to his lecturing, Leo found time for much literary and political work.

  • The language of her country novels is the genuine patois of middle France rendered in a literary form.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin celebrated the 17th of June by giving a picnic to their literary friends.

  • Hutton took charge of the literary side of the paper, and by degrees his own articles became and remained up to the last one of the best-known features of serious and thoughtful English journalism.

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