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Is literal a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for LITERAL in dictionary:

NOUN:

a misprint, a typographical error
a misprint of a letter.
Literal meaning.
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
misspelling in a text

ADJECTIVE:

to be taken as read
taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration
free from exaggeration or distortion
(of a translation) representing the exact words of the original text
(of a visual representation) exactly copied; realistic as opposed to abstract or impressionistic.

(of a person or performance) lacking imagination; prosaic
of, in, or expressed by a letter or the letters of the alphabet
according to the explicit meaning of a word or text
According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
Following the letter or exact words; not free.
Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
without interpretation or embellishment
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
absolute (used to emphasize that a strong expression is deliberately chosen to convey one's feelings)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a small error in printing or writing

Words related to LITERAL

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How to use LITERAL in a sentence

In order to maintain its infallibility, without doing violence to reason, you have, when you find irrational statements, to torture them and depart from the literal sense.
It is far more probable that they were meant as and were literal truths.
Yet this was the literal truth, so quickly had his susceptible heart yielded to the charms of the girl.
It is more completely insulated, in fact, than any literal island could be, inasmuch as deserts are more impassable than seas.
And yet it was her belief in a literal resurrection of the body that was sorely troubling her old soul during these last hours of watching.
But there is no sin or shame in interpreting them in that literal and realist sense in which they seem at first sight to have been written.
It is a war in the dark, and by far the most important of its operations are carried on, its battles are fought, in the literal sense of the word, underground.
But the information here given, if taken in its naked, literal sense, is barren, and unworthy of his labor.
To them, in a quite literal sense, the proper study of mankind was man.
The second is to remember that very plain literal fact always seems fantastic.

The master used, in this respect, extremely strong terms, which were afterward taken in a very literal sense.
How often do we see the literal truth of this exemplified! It is clear they do not believe in the dogma to whose technical terms they formally subscribe.
We find that the primitive potter has often copied it in the most literal manner.
The literal meaning is â€œbig loveâ€, or â€œmuch loveâ€ or â€œgreat loveâ€.
To this principle of interpretation, all strict or narrow criticism, founded on its literal meaning, must yield.
But just because this return was vital and produced by the agency of the Holy Spirit, it could not be termed a literal return.
It was not long after his death that his favorite theory of antagonisms had a literal fulfillment in the course adopted by the adherents to his opinions.
The Prayer Book comes down to us from men who were held by a belief in the literal truth of the whole Bible.
BRANCHES OF THE ART OF WAR WAR in its literal meaning is fighting, for fighting alone is the efficient principle in the manifold activity which in a wide sense is called War.
Literal reading of Oriental writings leads into gross errors, 818-m.
You come in a literal Sense to see one, for you have nothing to say.
Overcome with an unaccountable horror I rushed to the door, and there in the passage I saw a literal pillar of fire, in the middle of which, draped in flame, stood Mrs.
But this statement need not be taken in its most literal sense.
Of the practical, matter-of-fact, literal type of intellect.
It is not the literal story, but the pure musical utterance.
Some of his disciples maintained that he must not always be understood in a literal sense, in which probably there is an element of truth.
A literal application of her theory to man today is enough to bring it to a reductio ad absurdum.
That sort of literal interpretation of Christianity showed such a lack of imagination.
Hill is as far as most of his contemporaries from appreciating such a literal translation as the King James Version.

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