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1. (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" 2. (adj) literal without interpretation or embellishment "a literal depiction of the scene before him" 3. (adj) literal limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text "a literal translation" 4. (adj) literal avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) "it's the literal truth"
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