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 Definitions of literal  [ˈlɪt ər əl]  

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Definition of 'literal' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) literal
in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of a word or words; not figurative or metaphorical.

2.  literal
following the words of the original very closely and exactly:
a literal translation.

3.  literal
true to fact; unembellished; actual or factual:
a literal description of conditions.

4.  literal
being actually such, without exaggeration or inaccuracy:
the literal extermination of a city.

5.  literal
tending to construe words in the strict sense or in an unimaginative way.

6.  literal
of, pertaining to, or expressed by the letters of the alphabet.

7.  literal
affecting a letter or letters:
a literal error.

8. (n.) literal
a typographical error, esp. involving a single letter.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; < LL litterālis of letters. See letter , -al1)

Definition of 'literal' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

2. (adj) actual, genuine, literal, real
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
"her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"

3. (adj) literal
without interpretation or embellishment
"a literal depiction of the scene before him"

4. (adj) literal
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
"a literal translation"

5. (adj) literal
avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
"it's the literal truth"


Definition of 'literal' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) literal
(of a word or phrase) having the original or a factual meaning
I didn't mean he was boiling in the literal sense!


Definition of 'literal' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) literal
according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase

2. (adj) literal
following the letter or exact words; not free

3. (adj) literal
consisting of, or expressed by, letters

4. (adj) literal
giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons

5. (noun) literal
literal meaning


Translation of 'literal' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: following the exact meaning with no exaggeration
the literal truth.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: letterlik Arabic flag Arabic: حَرْفي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: дословен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: literal Czech flag Czech: věrný, čistý German flag German: buchstäblich
Danish flag Danish: bogstavelig; ren; skinbar Greek flag Greek: κυριολεκτικός, που λέγετα Spanish flag Spanish: literal
Estonian flag Estonian: liialdamata Farsi flag Farsi: معنی دقیق Finnish flag Finnish: kirjaimellinen
French flag French: littéral, réel Hebrew flag Hebrew: כִּפשוּטוֹ Hindi flag Hindi: शाब्दिक
Croatian flag Croatian: doslovan Hungarian flag Hungarian: a szó szoros értelmében v Indonesian flag Indonesian: sesungguhnya
Icelandic flag Icelandic: bókstaflegur Italian flag Italian: letterale; puro Japanese flag Japanese: 文字通りの
Korean flag Korean: 말 그대로 받아들이는 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: tikras, grynas Latvian flag Latvian: precīzs; pareizs
Malay flag Malay: sebenar Dutch flag Dutch: letterlijk Norwegian flag Norwegian: bokstavelig
Polish flag Polish: dosłowny Persian flag Persian: معنی دقیق Pashto flag Pashto: اصلى او پخه معنى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: literal Romanian flag Romanian: literal; adevărat Russian flag Russian: буквальный
Slovak flag Slovak: čistý Slovenian flag Slovenian: stvaren Serbian flag Serbian: bukvalan
Swedish flag Swedish: bokstavlig, exakt Thai flag Thai: ตามความหมายที่แท้จริงของค Turkish flag Turkish: gerçek, asıl, sözlük anla
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 確實的﹐不誇張的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сухий Urdu flag Urdu: الفاظ کو ان کے حقیقی معنی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: theo nghĩa đen Chinese flag Chinese: 确确实实的,无夸张的

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