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Found 3 items, similar to literal.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: literal
harfiah
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: literal
literal
adj 1: 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”
[syn:
actual,
genuine,
real]
2: without interpretation or embellishment;
“a literal
translation of the scene before him”
3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text;
“a
literal translation” [ant:
figurative]
4: lacking stylistic embellishment;
“a literal description”;
“wrote good but plain prose”;
“a plain unadorned account
of the coronation”;
“a forthright unembellished style”
[syn:
plain,
unembellished]
5: of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis;
“it's the
literal truth”;
“a matter of investment, pure and simple”
[syn:
pure and simple]
6: (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the
original;
“literal translation of the article”;
“an
awkward word-for-word translation” [syn:
word-for-word]
literal
n : a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical
failures of some kind [syn:
misprint,
erratum,
typographical error
,
typo,
literal error]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Literal
Literal
\Lit"er*al\, n.
Literal meaning. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Literal
\Lit"er*al\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*al), a. [F. lit['e]ral,
litt['e]ral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a
letter. See
Letter.]
1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not
figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a
phrase.
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It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the
owls can not abide. --Tyndale.
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2. Following the letter or exact words; not free.
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A middle course between the rigor of literal
translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.
--Hooker.
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3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
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The literal notation of numbers was known to
Europeans before the ciphers. --Johnson.
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4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative;
matter-of-fact; -- applied to persons.
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Literal contract (Law), a contract of which the whole
evidence is given in writing. --Bouvier.
Literal equation (Math.), an equation in which known
quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means
of letters; -- distinguished from a
numerical equation.
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