Familiar and Literary

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Familiar

Familiar adjective - Closely acquainted.
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Literary is an antonym for familiar.
Nearby Words: familiarity, familiarize, familiarise, familiarized, familiarization

Literary

Literary adjective - Suggestive of the vocabulary used in books.
Usage example: the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing
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Familiar is an antonym for literary.
Nearby Words: literal, literature
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  • This might be because the Russians are more familiar with the literary translation by Alexander Volkov than the original novel.
    Source: Stillborn Franchise
  • People in Pamela Dean's The Secret Country have many literary and Biblical quotations familiar from the everyday world, but written by different people.
    Source: As the Good Book Says
  • Useful Notes / Dichter and Denker Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803) — Today mainly familiar to literary historians, he was one of the most famous poets of his day, especially for his magnum opus, the epic poem Der Messias.
    Source: Useful Notes / Dichter and Denker
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