literary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
literary/ˈlɪtərəri/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to literature, especially of the kind viewed as having artistic merit.
■ concerned with literature as a profession.
- 2 associated with formal writing.
– derivatives
literarily adverb,
literariness noun.
literarily adverb,
literariness noun.
– origin C17 (in the sense ‘relating to the letters of the alphabet’): from L. litterarius, from littera (see letter).
'literary' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablush
- abode
- abysm
- abysmal
- academe
- access
- accidie
- accursed
- acerb
- Achaean
- actant
- adamantine
- adieu
- Adi Granth
- aesthetic
- afar
- affiance
- afire
- alabaster
- alas
- albescent
- Albion
- amanuensis
- amende honorable
- amidst
- ana
- analects
- anew
- anfractuous
- antithesis
- à outrance
- apace
- apprehensible
- Arcadian
- Arcady
- architectonic
- ardent
- argent
- argosy
- arise
- armature
- arrant
- array
- ashen
- aslope
- asperse
- asphodel
- aspire
- assiduity
- asunder

