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| 1. | [ adjective ] being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | |
| Synonyms: | actual genuine real | |
| Examples: | "her actual motive" "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton "a genuine dilemma" |
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| Related terms: | true | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] without interpretation or embellishment | |
| Examples: | "a literal translation of the scene before him" |
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| Related terms: | exact | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | |
| Examples: | "a literal translation" |
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| Related terms: | figurative denotative exact unrhetorical | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis | |
| Synonyms: | pure_and_simple | |
| Examples: | "it's the literal truth" "a matter of investment, pure and simple" |
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| Related terms: | plain | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] lacking stylistic embellishment | |
| Synonyms: | unembellished plain | |
| Examples: | "a literal description" "wrote good but plain prose" "a plain unadorned account of the coronation" "a forthright unembellished style" |
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| Related terms: | unrhetorical | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original | |
| Synonyms: | word-for-word | |
| Examples: | "literal translation of the article" "an awkward word-for-word translation" |
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| Related terms: | exact | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (printing) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | |
| Synonyms: | erratum typographical_error typo literal_error misprint | |
| Related terms: | error misprint | |
| Similar spelling: |
Litteral literally literalize literalism literalise littoral litoral Littrell lateral Litherland laterally lateralize laterality |
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