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Meaning of literal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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