Usually means: In a literal or exact sense.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word literally:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. literally: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. literally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. literally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. literally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. literally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Literally, literally: Wordnik
  7. literally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. literally: Wiktionary
  9. literally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. literally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. literally: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Literally, literally: Dictionary.com
  13. literally: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Literally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. literally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. literally: Rhymezone
  17. literally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. literally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. literally: Free Dictionary
  20. literally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. literally: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. literally: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literally: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literally: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literally: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
adverb:  (degree, figuratively, proscribed, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
adverb:  (colloquial) Used to intensify or dramatize non-figurative statements.
adverb:  (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.

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