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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)
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| Definition of 'literal' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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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"
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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!
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Webster Dictionary |
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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
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Sense: following the exact meaning with no exaggeration
the literal truth.
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 Afrikaans: letterlik |
 Arabic: حَرْفي |
 Bulgarian: дословен |
 Brazilian: literal |
 Czech: věrný, čistý |
 German: buchstäblich |
 Danish: bogstavelig; ren; skinbar |
 Greek: κυριολεκτικός, που λέγετα |
 Spanish: literal |
 Estonian: liialdamata |
 Farsi: معنی دقیق |
 Finnish: kirjaimellinen |
 French: littéral, réel |
 Hebrew: כִּפשוּטוֹ |
 Hindi: शाब्दिक |
 Croatian: doslovan |
 Hungarian: a szó szoros értelmében v |
 Indonesian: sesungguhnya |
 Icelandic: bókstaflegur |
 Italian: letterale; puro |
 Japanese: 文字通りの |
 Korean: 말 그대로 받아들이는 |
 Lithuanian: tikras, grynas |
 Latvian: precīzs; pareizs |
 Malay: sebenar |
 Dutch: letterlijk |
 Norwegian: bokstavelig |
 Polish: dosłowny |
 Persian: معنی دقیق |
 Pashto: اصلى او پخه معنى |
 Portuguese: literal |
 Romanian: literal; adevărat |
 Russian: буквальный |
 Slovak: čistý |
 Slovenian: stvaren |
 Serbian: bukvalan |
 Swedish: bokstavlig, exakt |
 Thai: ตามความหมายที่แท้จริงของค |
 Turkish: gerçek, asıl, sözlük anla |
 Taiwanese: 確實的﹐不誇張的 |
 Ukrainian: сухий |
 Urdu: الفاظ کو ان کے حقیقی معنی |
 Vietnamese: theo nghĩa đen |
 Chinese: 确确实实的，无夸张的 |
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