Literary vs Lyrical - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between literary and lyrical

is that literary is relating to literature while lyrical is appropriate for or suggestive of singing.

(en adjective)

Relating to literature.

literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation

* Johnson

He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.

Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

a literary man

* Mason

in the literary as well as fashionable world

Knowledgeable of literature or writing.

Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.

Bookish.

* (l)

* literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theory

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(en adjective)

Appropriate for or suggestive of singing.

Expressive of emotion.