overliterary

overliterary

(ˌəʊvəˈlɪtərərɪ)
adj
excessively literary
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
References in periodicals archive ?
To say that labyrinthian sentence constructions and repeated references to Greek mythology strike a cheesy note to contemporary ears but not to the original audiences still says nothing about the actual quality of what was written.There is a phenomenon known as bad, pretentious, and overliterary writing.
Eloquence, the Kiss of Death
Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?