Definition for Literal:

• of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; " it's the literal truth"; " a matter of investment, pure and simple"

Synonyms for Literal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • real,
  • actual,
  • genuine.
  •fastidious (adjective)
  • discerning,
  • flawless,
  • discriminating,
  • prudish,
  • dainty,
  • demanding,
  • picky,
  • squeamish,
  • particular,
  • prim,
  • scrupulous,
  • finicky,
  • rigorous,
  • critical,
  • methodical,
  • epicurean,
  • careful,
  • proper,
  • conscientious,
  • perspicacious,
  • exacting,
  • hypercritical,
  • Qualmish,
  • meticulous,
  • severe,
  • mincing,
  • precise,
  • delicate,
  • diligent,
  • correct,
  • fastidious,
  • accurate,
  • priggish,
  • fussy,
  • punctilious,
  • choosy,
  • persnickety.
  •literal (adjective)
  • exact,
  • accurate,
  • explicit,
  • precise,
  • prosaic,
  • actual,
  • authentic,
  • overt,
  • verbatim.
  •precise (adjective)
  • accurate.
  •truthful (adjective)
  • honest.
  •unembellished (adjective)
  • unembellished,
  • undistorted.
  •unimaginative (adjective)
  • prosaic.
  •unoriginal (adjective)
  • conventional.
  •veridical (adjective)
  • veridical.
  •word for word; exact, real (adjective)
  • genuine,
  • strict,
  • veritable,
  • unvarnished,
  • close,
  • bona fide,
  • unerring,
  • scrupulous,
  • verbal,
  • verbatim,
  • critical,
  • undeviating,
  • true,
  • to the letter,
  • simple,
  • authentic,
  • faithful,
  • accurate,
  • usual,
  • veracious,
  • natural,
  • gospel,
  • actual,
  • methodical,
  • unexaggerated,
  • written,
  • ordinary,
  • apparent,
  • not figurative,
  • plain.

• n.

  •
  • orthodox,
  • popular.
  •
  • veritable.
  •letter (noun)
  • character,
  • upper case,
  • cipher,
  • vowel,
  • letter,
  • abc,
  • alphabet,
  • consonant,
  • monogram.
  •literal (noun)
  • explicit,
  • misprint,
  • plain,
  • actual,
  • literal error,
  • true,
  • pure and simple,
  • genuine,
  • exact,
  • real,
  • typographical error,
  • typo,
  • erratum,
  • word for word,
  • denotative,
  • unembellished.
  •word for word (noun)
  • ordinary,
  • veritable,
  • strict,
  • written,
  • usual,
  • apparent,
  • natural,
  • unerring,
  • veracious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • direct.
  •
  • conventional.
  •Other relevant words:
  • quibbling,
  • Metaphrastic,
  • bare,
  • Logographic,
  • logogrammatic,
  • rigid,
  • customary,
  • dictionary,
  • nonfictional,
  • conclusively,
  • truthful,
  • unfeigned,
  • traditionalistic,
  • legitimate,
  • fine,
  • barren,
  • revealed,
  • punctual,
  • perfectly,
  • Lexigraphic,
  • to the letter,
  • straightforwardly,
  • declaratory,
  • realistic,
  • properly,
  • similar,
  • bona fide,
  • Simon-pure,
  • ordinary,
  • soundly,
  • scientific,
  • explicitly,
  • identical,
  • written,
  • evident,
  • out-and-out,
  • evangelical,
  • existent,
  • Unpoetic,
  • documentary,
  • denotative,
  • equivalent,
  • gospel,
  • so,
  • tightly,
  • clean-cut,
  • closely,
  • Unimitated,
  • express,
  • just,
  • patent,
  • conventional,
  • popular,
  • unaffected,
  • essential,
  • gaffe,
  • hair-splitting,
  • clearly,
  • graphemic,
  • staid,
  • definitive,
  • unqualified,
  • consummate,
  • unwavering,
  • sterling,
  • contentious,
  • dinkum,
  • certainly,
  • ostensible,
  • rendering,
  • faultless,
  • synonymous,
  • truthfully,
  • prosy,
  • infertile,
  • surely,
  • goof,
  • naked,
  • authoritatively,
  • apish,
  • quite,
  • right,
  • narrow,
  • titular,
  • thoroughly,
  • unvarnished,
  • open,
  • exoteric,
  • strait-laced,
  • printer's error,
  • traditional,
  • completely,
  • clear-cut,
  • secret,
  • veridical,
  • original,
  • Unconcocted,
  • simple,
  • inaccuracy,
  • assuredly,
  • misprint,
  • accepted,
  • nearly,
  • approved,
  • correctly,
  • just so,
  • boring,
  • straight,
  • indication,
  • unswerving,
  • down-to-earth,
  • capital,
  • secondhand,
  • observant,
  • unpretending,
  • veritable,
  • simplistic,
  • unconcealed,
  • abecedarian,
  • perfect,
  • howler,
  • beyond doubt,
  • unprejudiced,
  • niggling,
  • virtual,
  • exactly,
  • lettered,
  • unpoetical,
  • literatim,
  • litigious,
  • unbiased,
  • clew,
  • honest-to-god,
  • uncovered,
  • tangible,
  • close,
  • sure-enough,
  • loyal,
  • natural,
  • alphabetic,
  • canonical,
  • echt,
  • manifestly,
  • Inartificial,
  • Clavis,
  • fixedly,
  • scriptural,
  • Redition,
  • literally,
  • honorable,
  • derivative,
  • pictographic,
  • positively,
  • intelligible,
  • polyglot,
  • Unideal,
  • direct,
  • nit-picking,
  • usual,
  • implied,
  • lexical,
  • key,
  • disputatious,
  • precision,
  • flaw,
  • positive,
  • christian,
  • unmixed,
  • delicately,
  • apparent,
  • firm,
  • lawful,
  • fluff,
  • undeviating,
  • uncomplicated,
  • absolutely,
  • imitative,
  • unelaborated,
  • stuffy,
  • bloomer,
  • tantamount,
  • plainly,
  • candid,
  • unequivocal,
  • nominal,
  • literal translation,
  • concrete,
  • unromantic,
  • flawlessly,
  • alphabetical,
  • etymological,
  • solecism,
  • factual,
  • pure,
  • uninspired,
  • uncolored,
  • genuinely,
  • sincerely,
  • thorough,
  • crib,
  • unambiguous,
  • unornamented,
  • simple-minded,
  • pettifogging,
  • literal-minded,
  • apparently,
  • bald,
  • Cavilling,
  • translation,
  • syllabic,
  • mundane,
  • specific,
  • honest,
  • slip-up,
  • authoritative,
  • typographical error,
  • Prosing,
  • Exacter,
  • honest-to-goodness,
  • severely,
  • unimaginative,
  • mathematical,
  • unpatterned,
  • Orthodoxical,
  • painstaking,
  • uncial,
  • really,
  • faithful,
  • literal error,
  • ideographic,
  • definite,
  • fact,
  • curious,
  • substantial,
  • blunder,
  • latent,
  • straightforward,
  • naturalistic,
  • most,
  • true-blue,
  • actually,
  • word for word,
  • typo,
  • true,
  • manifest,
  • accurately,
  • unassumed,
  • unflattering,
  • finely,
  • Paronymous,
  • literalness,
  • textual,
  • undistorted,
  • error-free,
  • text,
  • majuscule,
  • verisimilar,
  • writing,
  • nice,
  • de facto,
  • unsimulated,
  • veracious,
  • error,
  • Imitable,
  • faultlessly,
  • uninventive,
  • received,
  • undisguised,
  • directly,
  • strict,
  • foul-up,
  • colourless,
  • physical,
  • valid,
  • unpretended,
  • truely,
  • Aping,
  • truly,
  • mistake,
  • hard,
  • definitely,
  • standard,
  • arid,
  • card-carrying,
  • trot,
  • erratum,
  • reliable,
  • boob,
  • well-defined,
  • material,
  • jesuitical,
  • Mimicking,
  • very,
  • earthbound,
  • near,
  • lower-case,
  • orthodox,
  • lifelike,
  • rendition,
  • sincere,
  • pure and simple,
  • legalistic,
  • Unspecious,
  • verifiable,
  • unoriginal,
  • dry,
  • fault,
  • prima facie,
  • Paraphrastic,
  • good,
  • unimagined,
  • expressly,
  • unadulterated,
  • rightful,
  • homely,
  • boner,
  • general meaning,
  • colorless,
  • majuscular,
  • strictly,
  • verified,
  • Infecund,
  • not figurative,
  • precisely,
  • real,
  • dull,
  • minuscular,
  • unrhetorical,
  • constant,
  • fully,
  • clanger,
  • minuscule,
  • honestly,
  • unexaggerated,
  • meaning,
  • verbal,
  • objective,
  • barely,
  • genuine,
  • conjugate,
  • slip,
  • particularly,
  • unadorned,
  • humdrum,
  • semantic,
  • pony,
  • unerring,
  • unassuming,
  • Uninvented,
  • real estate,
  • tedious,
  • downright,
  • basic,
  • fairly,
  • plain,
  • matter of fact,
  • unembellished,
  • boo-boo,
  • specially,
  • unfanciful,
  • evidently,
  • allographic,
  • entirely,
  • cold,
  • subtle,
  • PLAIN MEANING,
  • distinctly,
  • sound,
  • stolid,
  • transliterated.

Antonyms for Literal:

• adj.

  • all
    figurative.
  • word for word; exact, real
    difficult, unreal, different, complicated, figurative, counterfeit, exaggerated, unclear, decorated, ornate, uncommon, extraordinary, Falsified, inaccurate, intricate, complex, false, dishonest, loose, imaginative, abnormal, embellished.
  • Other antonyms:
    chimerical, fabulous, invented, nonfactual, unauthentic, apocryphal, speculative, embroidered, inexact, imagined, theoretical, imaginary, legendary, undocumented, mythical, pretend, exaggerated, fictionalized, fancy, fictitious, hypothetical, insupportable, unsupportable, made-up, fictional.