literary
How to pronounce literary:
Synonyms for literary:
academic
academical
belletristic
bookish
educated
erudite
formal
highbrow
intellectual
learned
lettered
literate
scholarly
scholastic
schooled
well-read
Antonyms for literary:
casual
chatty
colloquial
common
conversational
demotic
dialectal
everyday
familiar
idiomatic
informal
jive
local
native
natural
non-literary
nonformal
nonliterary
ordinary
popular
slang
slangy
spoken
street
unbookish
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- compensation
- forseeable
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- ornamented
- prematurely
- untrustworthy
- culminating
- electronics
- incarnation
- initiative
- oratory
- pontificate
- regalia
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