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Definition of literal
- a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal translation of the scene before him"
- (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; "literal translation of the article"; "an awkward word-for-word translation"
- limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"
- of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it''s the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
- lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
- 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"
See Also: exact, unrhetorical
Derivational Morphology: misprint
Anagrams: retrial, atelier, trailer
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