Literal - Definition
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, literal, real]
2: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction
of the scene before him"
3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal
translation" [ant: figurative, nonliteral]
4: avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis);
"it's the literal truth"
n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical
failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum,
typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]