Definitions for literal

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literal lit·er·al

Spelling: [lit-er-uh l]

IPA: /ˈlɪt ər əl/

Literal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in literal (aeillrt).

Definitions for literal

noun

1. a typographical error, especially involving a single letter.

adjective

1. in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical:
2. following the words of the original very closely and exactly:
3. true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual:
4. being actually such, without exaggeration or inaccuracy:
5. (of persons) tending to construe words in the strict sense or in an unimaginative way; matter-of-fact; prosaic.
6. of or relating to the letters of the alphabet.
7. of the nature of letters.
8. expressed by letters.
9. affecting a letter or letters:

Origin of literal

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin litterālis “of letters.” See letter¹, -al¹

Examples for literal

Then the director, Penny Marshall, encouraged him to drop some of the literal behavior and put more of himself into the character.

No one will claim that it is used in its literal sense of "seed," in the text.

I never hear a Democrat talk about these goods, which are, in the literal sense, indivisible—for us all.

“Air refueling and airlift assets were the literal pinch I am describing here,” the official said.

This literal quotation from the frank Mr. Calvin caused a sensation.

So is the literal “turkey point of view” offered by the GoPros attached to the turkeys as they run around the coop.

“The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.

This lyrical vision restores it, whole, complete, and literal.

His statement concerning Mrs. Black was not the literal truth.

And this remark, intended to be facetious, was after all pretty close to the literal truth.