literally
Meaning of literally
- Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
- (degree, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
- Used to intensify or dramatise non-figurative statements; tending towards a meaningless filler word in repeated use.
I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
- Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
You literally put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
Information about literally
- It is an adverb.
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Hyphenation of literally
lit-er-ally
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- literally is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
literally synonyms
Meaning :
actually, really, virtually, merely
literally antonyms
Meaning :
figuratively, metaphorically, virtually
Translation of literally
- Italian: letteralmente
- Spanish: literalmente
- French: littéralement
Words that rhyme with literally
Ally, ally, Bally, bally, cannibally, globally, nontribally, nonverbally, pseudotribally, tribally, untribally, unverbally, verbally, Adamically, Anabaptistically, Anacreontically, Asiatically, Biblically, Bolshevistically, Britannically, Buddhistically, Byronically, Cally, Calvinistically, Capernaitically, Catonically, Celtically, Ciceronically, Darwinically, Delphically, Dionysiacally, Docetically, Draconically, Eucharistically, Expressionistically, Galliccally, Germanically, Gothically, Hebraically, Hebraistically, Hellenically, Hellenistically, Hibernically, Hispanically, Homerically, Hudibrastically, Italically, Jacobinically, Jacobitically, Japonically