literal
Meaning of literal
noun
- (epigraphy) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
- A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
- A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. Wp
- Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
- Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
- Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
a literal equation
- (of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
- Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.
Telemarketers are the literal worst.
Information about literal
- The plural form of literal is: literals.
- Languages in which literal is used:
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of literal
lit-eral
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- literal is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
literal synonyms
Meaning actual:
Meaning misprint:
literal antonyms
Meaning :
Translation of literal
- German: wahr, tatsächlich, wirklich, eigentlich
- Italian: genuino, vero
- Spanish: genuino, verdadero
Anagrams of literal
Words that rhyme with literal
eral, Liberal, antiliberal, illiberal, impuberal, intertuberal, liberal, neoliberal, nonliberal, overliberal, postpuberal, preliberal, prepuberal, pseudoliberal, puberal, semiliberal, subtuberal, tuberal, ultraliberal, unliberal, brachyceral, carceral, cardiovisceral, ceral, cerebrovisceral, cheiceral, cheliceral, extravisceral, glyceral, neurovisceral, nonvisceral, parietovisceral, perivisceral, pleurovisceral, plurivisceral, rhopaloceral, somaticovisceral, unvisceral, visceral, Falderal, Federal, Inderal, antifederal, bederal, confederal, falderal, federal, foederal, ganoderal, hederal
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