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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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