unliterary
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈlɪtərɪ/
:
no literario
- The speakers at the event had an unliterary way of expressing their ideas, making the discussion relatable and engaging.
Examples
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Despite his unliterary background, he wrote a straightforward guide that everyone found easy to understand.
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The best word to describe the neighborhood of Therese's childhood was unliterary.
Fiction book (2001) -
Part of the difficulty is that Joyce cultivated literary skills that were, by most standards, unliterary.
Academic text (2004) -
Or most likely it was just an obvious, typical, unliterary Dublin tourist experience, the kind of thing any foreigner with a guidebook would have done that afternoon.
Academic text (2004) -
Literary and cultural scholars in Canada have, for many years, acknowledged the importance of the mid-twentieth-century "little-magazine" movement, but only recently have scholars interested in the cultural history of protest begun to examine periodicals that an earlier generation of scholars deemed unliterary and thus outside the movement.
Academic text (2014) -
Her unliterary approach to writing focused on clarity and simplicity, avoiding complex phrases and jargon.
Synonyms
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Writing that is plain and based on facts and uses simple words
Plain language that avoids fancy or exaggerated words
Something that is simple and without much decoration
Looks modest and simple and does not attract attention
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Etymology
The word unliterary starts with un- meaning 'not' and adds literary, which comes from a word for 'letters' or writing, like the everyday word letter. So unliterary means 'not bookish', plain and direct, without the showy style of written literature.