Definition of "literary"

literary

/ˈlɪtəɹəɹi/

adjective
comparative more literary, superlative most literary
1. Relating to literature.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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.