Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "belletristic" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF BELLETRISTIC

belletristic  [ˌbelɪˈtrɪstɪk] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BELLETRISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Belletristic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BELLETRISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Belles-lettres

Belles-lettres or belles lettres is a term that is used to describe a category of writing. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist. However, the boundaries of that category vary in different usages. Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing. In this sense, therefore, it includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone. The term thus can be used to refer to literature generally. The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the "department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism," while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as "the more artistic and imaginative forms of literature, as poetry or romance, as opposed to more pedestrian and exact studies.

Definition of belletristic in the English dictionary

The definition of belletristic in the dictionary is relating to or with the characteristics of belles-lettres.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BELLETRISTIC


aphoristic
ˌæfəˈrɪstɪk
behavioristic
bɪˌheɪvjəˈrɪstɪk
characteristic
ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk
coloristic
ˌkʌləˈrɪstɪk
eristic
ɛˈrɪstɪk
Eucharistic
ˌjuːkəˈrɪstɪk
floristic
flɒˈrɪstɪk
formularistic
ˌfɔːmjʊləˈrɪstɪk
futuristic
ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɪstɪk
heuristic
hjʊəˈrɪstɪk
hubristic
hjuːˈbrɪstɪk
hypocoristic
ˌhaɪpəkɔːˈrɪstɪk
juristic
dʒʊˈrɪstɪk
militaristic
ˌmɪlɪtəˈrɪstɪk
myristic
mɪˈrɪstɪk
patristic
pəˈtrɪstɪk
puristic
pjʊəˈrɪstɪk
tristich
ˈtrɪstɪk
uncharacteristic
ˌʌnkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk
voyeuristic
ˌvwaɪəˈrɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BELLETRISTIC

bellcote
belle
Belle Isle
Belleau Wood
Belleek
Bellerophon
belles-lettres
belleter
belletrism
belletrist
belletristical
bellflower
bellfounder
bellfoundry
bellhanger
bellhop
bellibone
bellicose
bellicosely
bellicosity

WORDS THAT END LIKE BELLETRISTIC

anachronistic
artistic
autistic
ballistic
deterministic
domestic
holistic
journalistic
linguistic
logistic
mechanistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of belletristic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «belletristic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF BELLETRISTIC

Find out the translation of belletristic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of belletristic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «belletristic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

纯文学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Bellas letras
570 millions of speakers

English

belletristic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

belletristic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فن.
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

художественная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ficção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

belletristic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

artistique La
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Belletristic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

belletristische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

純文学者の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

예술 문학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Belletristic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

belletristic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

belletristic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेल्टररिस्टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sanatsal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

belletristic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

beletrystyczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

художня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

beletristică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Λογοτεχνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

belletristic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Skönlitteratur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Fiksjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of belletristic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLETRISTIC»

The term «belletristic» is used very little and occupies the 152.743 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Rarely used
29
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «belletristic» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of belletristic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «belletristic».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLETRISTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «belletristic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «belletristic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about belletristic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELLETRISTIC»

Discover the use of belletristic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to belletristic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its ...
Traces the influence of Cartesian psycho-physiology & the British empiricism on British rhetoricians of the late eighteenth century.
Barbara Warnick, 1993
2
Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo
If a formalist belletristic rhetoric can be accused of depo- liticizing and universalizing human response, making rhetorical and cultural contexts less important, it is no less quietist than the Epicurean conversational garden. However, again ...
C. L. Hobbs
3
Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
While all human beings possessed the basic faculty,it needed to bedeveloped, and belletristic rhetoricattempted to do justthat. Theriseof belletristic rhetoric was also shaped by the appearance ofa new reading public that arose asa result of ...
Sōseki Natsume, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, 2013
4
Eighteenth-century British and American Rhetorics and ...
Put another way, belletristic rhetoric, as David Masson wrote, conceived more broadly of rhetoric as "the science of Literature, or Literary Theory or Literary Criticism universally," which "treat[cd] the principles of Historical Writing, Poetry, and ...
Michael G. Moran, 1994
5
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
On this point, the belletristic rhetoricians went beyond Quintilian, who held that the ideal orator should be both morally good and skilled in speaking but made no claim for the morally improving effects of eloquence. Blair's theory owed much to  ...
FerreiraBuckley/Halloran
6
And It Goes Like This...
G. Andi Rhos. Belletristic Press Belletristic Press, LLC 31-64 21st Street, Suite 190 Long Island City, New York 11106 www.belletristicpress.com PUBLISHER'S NOTE This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are  ...
G. Andi Rhos, 2007
7
Critics at Work: Interviews, 1993-2003
This began long ago, as literary scholarship became more technical: philological criticism a hundred years ago and New Criticism fifty years ago were trying to be more scientific than the old belletristic criticism. Now, from our perspective, the ...
Jeffrey Williams, 2004
8
The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early ...
Belletristic writing works through numerous modalities on the temporal problem. " Occasional" gushi and/« composition, which accounted for so much belletristic composition for centuries to come, appears for the first time in significant quantity  ...
Christopher Leigh Connery, 1998
9
Nineteenth-century Rhetoric in North America: Nan Johnson
-Treatments of the pathetic as a quality of beauty and a necessary appeal in persuasion (De Mille, part 5; Hope 89-1 10) The number of significant belletristic principles and theoretical presumptions conventionalized in nineteenth-century ...
Nan Johnson, 1991
10
Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom
I am egotistical enough to want the readers of all my writing to wish they'd thought of saying it my way, and I'd use a similar style, perhaps a tad more casual, in a belletristic essay. There, given the subject of friendship and my first-person point  ...
Gary A. Olson, Sidney I. Dobrin, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELLETRISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term belletristic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Emeline Brudwick: 'Life of Pi' cuts the crust of dull school reading
Everything about it — truly everything — captivated me and placed me in belletristic reverie. I don't trust myself to go into too much detail ... «Post-Bulletin, May 15»
2
A brief survey of the short story: David Foster Wallace
The story, a series of what Wallace calls “short belletristic pieces” that present a situation then ask the reader a question about it, collapses into ... «The Guardian, May 15»
3
State of Plague, Part 5: Disease-Mongering as Militarized Trojan …
At the time, the media crusade was like one long, belletristic plea that this could be the last attempt to deploy persuasion before the erosion of ... «Age of Autism, Apr 15»
4
Post-liberation writing plays hide-and-seek with plot
If there is one common theme running through all the post-transition literature, whether genre, belletristic fiction, nonfiction, or new media ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Apr 15»
5
The "Fete Du Slip": Switzerland's High-Brow Porn Festival
She's too much of a belletristic literature connoisseur to devote time to clumsily written books, and prefers reading Story of O again. She does ... «Worldcrunch, Mar 15»
6
The power of women with pens
And those stories are worth telling, its organizers say, no matter the progress already made in the quest for belletristic equality. "Of course men ... «Albany Times Union, Mar 15»
7
They've Gone and Monofonus'd the ATX Again! Locally published …
And other, similarly big, publishers – they also release works into the belletristic environment, works that thrive and help keep the ravening ... «Austin Chronicle, Jan 15»
8
7 Arab books you should read in 2015
... bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life, particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of cultural heroines otherwise lost to ... «Your Middle East, Dec 14»
9
Meghan Daum On Tackling The Unspeakable Parts Of Life
Yet you are also bringing them back to something belletristic that harkens back to an editorial golden age. And my essays are pretty long. «Daily Beast, Dec 14»
10
Meet Eve Bridburg, Founder of GrubStreet & Champion of Boston's …
The designated area, intended to celebrate Boston's belletristic heritage and cultivate its budding scribes, is intended to promote the bookish ... «BostInno, Nov 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Belletristic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/belletristic>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z