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Meaning of "readerly" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF READERLY

ˈriːdərlɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF READERLY

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

WHAT DOES READERLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of readerly in the English dictionary

The definition of readerly in the dictionary is pertaining to or suitable for a reader.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH READERLY

doctorly · hectorly · interiorly · intracellularly · monocularly · muscularly · oracularly · orbicularly · panderly · pastorly · porterly · rectangularly · sexangularly · souterly · specularly · spinsterly · tartarly · teacherly · whoremasterly · yonderly

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE READERLY

readability · readable · readableness · readably · readapt · readaptation · readdict · readdress · Reade · reader · readership · readier · readies · readiest · readily · readiness · reading · reading age · reading book · reading comprehension

WORDS THAT END LIKE READERLY

bitterly · cleverly · confused elderly · disorderly · eagerly · elderly · formerly · improperly · northerly · nursing orderly · orderly · overly · properly · quarterly · slenderly · tenderly · unorderly · untenderly · utterly · westerly

Synonyms and antonyms of readerly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «readerly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF READERLY

Find out the translation of readerly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of readerly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «readerly» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

readerly
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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legible
570 millions of speakers
en

English

readerly
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

readerly
380 millions of speakers
ar

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readerly
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

читательскую
278 millions of speakers
pt

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readerly
270 millions of speakers
bn

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readerly
260 millions of speakers
fr

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readerly
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Dengan mudah
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

leserliche
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

readerly
130 millions of speakers
ko

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readerly
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Readly
85 millions of speakers
vi

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readerly
80 millions of speakers
ta

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readerly
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

रीडरली
75 millions of speakers
tr

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readerly
70 millions of speakers
it

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readerly
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

czytelniczym
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

читацьку
40 millions of speakers
ro

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readerly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

readerly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leesmatige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

readerly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

readerly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of readerly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «READERLY»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «READERLY»

Discover the use of readerly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to readerly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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What Does Eve Do To Help?: And Other Readerly Questions to ...
The essays for the most part read in their original form to meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, are: "What Does Eve Do To Help? and other Irredeemably Androcentric Orienations in Genesis 1-3"; What Happens in Genesis"; "The ...
David J. A. Clines, 1990
2
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, ...
Readerly texts are finished objects, products and not productions. The readerly, classic narrative 'is basically subject to the logico-temporal order' (52). It 'sets forth the end of every action (conclusion, interruption, closure, denouement)' and so ...
Irene Rima Makaryk, 1993
3
The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric ...
But if Sarrasine's view of La Zambinella as an image of perfect wholeness and unequivocal femininity is analogous to the classic, readerly conception of literature according to Barthes's definition, then Balzac's text has already worked out the ...
Barbara Johnson, 1985
4
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to ...
But, Barthes insists, although all readerly texts are the same in that they stay the " infinite play of the world" (5), some readerly texts deny such plurality more than others. The writerly thus counts for Barthes as both an ideal limit and a term of ...
Dorothy J. Hale, 1998
5
Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity
What Barthes shows in S/Z is that plurality also exists in a readerly ("realist") text, for example Balzac's Sarrasme. There are readerly and writerly qualities in every text because there is no such thing as the absolutely different, or the Writerly ...
Stefan Herbrechter, 1999
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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000
26 The abstracted self that is reserved from reading, by reading, is a by-product of the particular kind of readerly absorption cultivated by the novel: “Depending, as literary reading always does, on social subjects at least fractionally estranged  ...
Dorothy J. Hale, 2009
7
The Prostitute and the Prophet: Hosea's Marriage in ...
In the first I briefly distinguish between the type of approach I am adopting and conventional perspectives on Hosea 1-3 using Roland Barthes's distinction between 'readerly' and 'writerly' responses to texts. In the second section I provide a ...
Yvonne Sherwood, 2004
8
Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness
Royster's model of critical readerly agency offers all readers a more rhetorically ( and emotionally) complicated positioning, a positioning that may be more successful than Castillo's in fostering cross-cultural negotiation. In "When The First ...
Krista Ratcliffe, 2005
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Three Models on a Rocking-horse: A Comparative Study in ...
"Writerly" is the positive value in Barthes' typology of texts; "readerly" is its negative counterpart. "Readerly" qualifies the kind of texts which "can be read but not written" (Barthes 1970: 10). Readerly texts are finished products and do not induce ...
Cornelius J. Bucher, 1990
10
Narrative Theory: Special topics
In other words, Balzac's text already 'knows' the limits and blindnesses of the readerly, which it personifies in Sarrasine. Balzac has already in a sense done Barthes's work for him. The readerly text is itself nothing other than a deconstruction ...
Mieke Bal, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «READERLY»

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In Search of Lost Memory: Jesse Ball's Elegiac 'A Cure for Suicide'
Ball performs the remarkable task of pruning away layers of readerly skepticism in order to find the inherent beauty of small moments, which often arrive with a ... «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
2
Drift Toward a Perfect Coffee Experience: New biannual magazine …
And so, my reasoning runs, we can be certain of readerly, coffee-aficionado satisfaction no matter the metropolis. As if it weren't as obvious as an accidental ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Despite its reputation as a form of leisure, the reading of novels has never been a trouble-free activity, especially for women, whose readerly desires and habits ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
4
Responding to Gershom Gorenberg's 'Atticus Finch principle of …
... of Atticus Finch “transforms” the way we read and understand To Kill a Mockingbird, Gorenberg draws an analogy between readerly reinterpretations of literary ... «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»
5
The Perfect Book for 8 Unique Types of Readers
... up with a simple, thoroughly unscientific quiz to diagnose eight readerly personalities. Answer the following questions, then move forward to find your books. «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
6
A God in Ruins
... from those practitioners of metafiction who nudge readers in the ribs, chiefly, it seems, to remind us of their own cleverness and our own readerly gullibility. «Truthdig, Jul 15»
7
An OED Update Reveals the Surprising Place Where Hundreds of …
New information about the etymologies of entries (both new and familiar) often results from research or readerly input. Often, too, it's the quotations (over and ... «Flavorwire, Jun 15»
8
Ivy League Edge Offers Free Lifetime Use of Readerly App to Beta …
Readerly is an app that trains students to read with intellectual rigor, helping them to increase academic performance and raise their scores on standardized ... «PRUnderground, May 15»
9
PEN and Salman Rushdie's Disappointing Response to Authors …
On the issue of Charlie Hebdo, PEN has rehearsed a pronounced obliviousness predicated on readerly negligence. “I didn't feel this issue was certain to ... «Flavorwire, Apr 15»
10
The History of “Loving” to Read
How to understand this new culture of readerly yearning—this intrusion of feeling into a cerebral realm? In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the ... «The New Yorker, Feb 15»
REFERENCE
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