Literary words

1. Common standard literary words are chiefly used in writing and in polished speech. They are used in formal communication. One can always tell a literary word from a colloquial word, because literary words are used to satisfy communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages, while colloquial words are employed in non-official everyday communication.

Literary words stand in opposition to colloquial words forming pairs of synonyms which are based on contrasting relations.