overliterary

adjective

over·​lit·​er·​ary ˌō-vər-ˈli-tə-ˌrer-ē 

: literary to an excessive degree

overliterary dialogue

There is a phenomenon known as bad, pretentious, and overliterary writing. Nineteenth-century America produced reams of it.

—Darryl Lorenzo

Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overliterary

• beneficiary
• bronchopulmonary
• evolutionary
• expeditionary
• extramedullary
• extraordinary
• extrapulmonary
• genitourinary
• geostationary
• hepatobiliary
• illocutionary
• insurrectionary