Literal is valid Scrabble Word

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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Words that contain 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 “big love”, or “much love” or “great love”.
• 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.

Similar words containing LITER without suffix al

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