belles-lettristic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
Example Sentences
- "Reggio's works will always command respect on account of their belles-lettristic value."
- "We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman..."
- "Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works..."
- "Belles-lettristic writing about literature developed the model of a thoughtful person sitting down with a literary work of life-long acquaintance..."
Inflected Forms
more belles-lettristic (comparative)
most belles-lettristic (superlative)