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Definition of literal:
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
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" without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him" limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation" avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth" |