literary

Etymology

From French littéraire.

adj

1. Relating to literature.
   literary fame
   a literary history
   literary conversation
   He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
   a literary man
   in the literary as well as fashionable world 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
5. Bookish.