Literal

Definition:

• (a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
• (a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.
• (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
• (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
• (n.) Literal meaning.

Compare literal with other words:

literal vs. practical

literal vs. magnitude

ironic vs. literal

literal vs. verbatim

liberal vs. literal

foxlike vs. literal

literal vs. metaphrased

literal vs. scripturalism

literal vs. nonliteral

literal vs. literalize

literal vs. symbolic

literal vs. metaphor

cunning vs. literal

balderdash vs. literal

ingenuous vs. literal

hand vs. literal

literal vs. literally

gobbler vs. literal

literal vs. logical

illiterate vs. literal

abstract vs. literal

literal vs. primarily

literal vs. manus

literal vs. premier

fijian vs. literal

breton vs. literal

fool vs. literal

imply vs. literal

literal vs. primaries

fon vs. literal

literal vs. premolar

canis vs. literal

literal vs. smell

literal vs. roe

literal vs. ora

literal vs. none

base vs. literal

fox vs. literal

literal vs. primer

basque vs. literal

literal vs. zero

literal vs. wolf

literal vs. optic

literal vs. quaternary

literal vs. outwit

literal vs. ree

literal vs. mammalian

literal vs. prime

literal vs. sarcasm

fuchs vs. literal

intense vs. literal

literal vs. theological

ingenuity vs. literal

eye vs. literal

exact vs. literal

literal vs. secondary

literal vs. mothering

literal vs. officialism

literal vs. literalist

literal vs. metaphrase

literal vs. literalness

antiphrasis vs. literal

isolation vs. literal

intension vs. literal

foolhardy vs. literal

idea vs. literal

literal vs. nine

effect vs. literal

literal vs. offspring

fail vs. literal

literal vs. sodium

literal vs. set

literal vs. negation

literal vs. variable

literal vs. literate

literacy vs. literal

liberties vs. literal

free vs. literal

literal vs. metaphorical

literal vs. real

accord vs. literal

literal vs. read

interpretation vs. literal

literal vs. state

literal vs. literary

literal vs. literature

hurtle vs. literal

constant vs. literal

connotative vs. literal

frontier vs. literal

literal vs. predecessor

fume vs. literal

lateral vs. literal

figure vs. literal

figurative vs. literal

extension vs. literal

connote vs. literal

letter vs. literal

literal vs. seta

alphabetical vs. literal

denotation vs. literal

connotation vs. literal

literal vs. macedonian

literal vs. principal

all vs. literal