Usually means: Exact, true to original meaning.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word literal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. literal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. literal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. literal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. literal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. literal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Literal, literal: Wordnik
  7. literal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. literal: Wiktionary
  9. literal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. literal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. literal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Literal, literal: Dictionary.com
  13. literal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. literal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Literal (album), Literal (computer programming), Literal (computer science), Literal (mathematical logic), Literal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. literal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. literal: Rhymezone
  18. literal, literal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. literal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. literal: Free Dictionary
  21. literal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. literal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Literal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literal (disambiguation), literal: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. literal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. literal: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Literal (disambiguation), literal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. literal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See literality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical, and etymonic rather than idiomatic.
adjective:  Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties
adjective:  (theology) (loosely) That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given scripture is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it; (specifically) following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation
adjective:  (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation.
adjective:  (of a person) Unimaginative; matter-of-fact
adjective:  (proscribed) Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.
noun:  (epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
noun:  (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
noun:  (logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. ᵂᵖ
adjective:  Misspelling of littoral. [Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.]
noun:  Misspelling of littoral. [A shore.]

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