Relating to literature. / Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. / Knowledgeable of literature or writing. / Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. / Bookish.

Knowledge of and ability to discuss the history of and major concepts underlying a culture, particularly one's own and those of one's peers.

Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.

(epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter. / (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

The ability to read and write. / The ability to understand and evaluate something.

Able to read and write; having literacy. / Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read. / Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).

A person who is able to read and write. / (historical) A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.

Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.

The property of being literary, either being a work of literature or knowledgable of literature.

The property of being literal.