Associations to the word «Literal»
Noun
- Immortality
- Doctrine
- Pakistani
- Original
- Exposition
- Crucifixion
- Singular
- Allusion
- Ruby
- Humankind
- Substitution
- Sabbath
- Belief
- Messiah
- Infringement
- Reject
- Pronunciation
- Instance
- Query
- Chronology
- Lan
- Frost
- Lds
- Divine
- Verb
- Psalm
- True
- Parenthesis
- Believer
- Algorithm
- Theologian
- Adherent
- Input
- Narrator
- Speech
- Value
- Subtitle
- Sarcasm
- Ussr
- Usage
- Afterlife
- Transcription
- Cipher
- Bracket
- Gospel
- Judaism
- Equivalence
- Orthodoxy
- Rejection
- Inference
- Exodus
- Narration
- Repetition
- Rapture
- Realism
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
LITERAL, adjective. Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
LITERAL, adjective. Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
LITERAL, adjective. (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
LITERAL, adjective. (of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
LITERAL, noun. (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
LITERAL, noun. (logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.[1]
LITERAL BELIEF, noun. Believing in a statement literally, often referring to Christian belief that the Bible is true, in the literal sense.
LITERAL RULE, noun. (legal) The method of strictly interpreting a statute according unto the meaning, established by convention, of the words used therein.
Dictionary definition
LITERAL, noun. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
LITERAL, adjective. 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".
LITERAL, adjective. Without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him".
LITERAL, adjective. Limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation".
LITERAL, adjective. Avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.