adj.1 of, constituting, or occupied with books or literature or written composition, esp. of the kind valued for quality of form.
2 well informed about literature.
3 (of a word or idiom) used chiefly in literary works or other formal writing.
Phrases and idioms:
literary executor see EXECUTOR. literary history the history of the treatment of a subject in literature.
Derivatives:
literarily adv. literariness n.
Etymology: L litterarius (as LETTER)