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uk/ˈlɪt.ər.əl/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.əl/C2 The literal meaning of a word is its original, basic meaning:
The literal meaning of "television" is "seeing from a distance".
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A literal translation of a text is done by translating each word separately, without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence:
Her translation is too literal, resulting in unnatural-sounding prose.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- many
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
- verbatim
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