Adjective literal has 6 senses
- 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"
Antonym: false (indirect, via true)
- literal - without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal translation of the scene before him"
Antonym: inexact (indirect, via exact)
- literal - limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"
Antonyms: figurative, nonliteral, analogical, extended, metaphorical, metaphoric, metonymic, metonymical, poetic, synecdochic, synecdochical, tropical
- literal, plain, unembellished - lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
Antonym: rhetorical (indirect, via unrhetorical)
- literal, pure and simple - of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
Antonym: fancy (indirect, via plain)
- literal, word-for-word - (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; "literal translation of the article"; "an awkward word-for-word translation"
Antonym: inexact (indirect, via exact)
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Noun literal has 1 sense
- misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
--1 is a kind of error, mistake
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