What is another word for literal?
622 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ lˈɪtəɹə͡l], [ lˈɪtəɹəl], [ l_ˈɪ_t_ə_ɹ_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for literal:- accurate (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- exact (adjective)
- factual (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- genuine (adjective)
- literal (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- truthful (adjective)
- verbal (adjective)
- actual (noun)
- denotative (noun)
- erratum (noun)
- letter (noun)
- literal (noun)
- word for word (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Literal:
adj.
•accurate (adjective)- de-fined,
- severe,
- ultra precise,
- de tailed,
- more ultraprecise,
- most ultraprecise,
- most defined,
- un-erring,
- de-tailed,
- dis criminative,
- faithful,
- more defined,
- un erring,
- more concrete,
- dis-criminative,
- on button,
- matter-of-fact,
- de-finite,
- dis criminating,
- re gular,
- on nose,
- explicit,
- on money,
- unerring,
- ultra-precise,
- on the money,
- un mistakable,
- veracious,
- more careful,
- dis-criminating,
- ultraprecise,
- de fined,
- re-gular,
- de finite,
- un-mistakable.
- more straight laced,
- most straightlaced,
- most straight laced,
- up-tight,
- de mure,
- lamest,
- more doctrinal,
- more straightlaced,
- stereo-typed,
- de-mure,
- more straight-laced,
- in-flexible,
- rube,
- most isolationist,
- narrowminded,
- straight laced,
- obstinate,
- rubest,
- in flexible,
- stereo typed,
- most straight-laced,
- hidebound,
- up tight,
- narrow minded,
- more isolationist,
- most doctrinal.
- bull'seye,
- un-equivocal,
- ex-act,
- bull-eye,
- on numbers,
- ex-press,
- bulleye,
- bull eye,
- bulls eye,
- nailed down,
- ex act,
- bullseye,
- un equivocal,
- ex press,
- clearcut.
- more sure-enough,
- most sure-enough,
- un doubted,
- straight from horse mouth,
- more card-carrying,
- more card carrying,
- on level,
- most cardcarrying,
- un adorned,
- un biased,
- more cardcarrying,
- most true-to-life,
- most true to life,
- most sureenough,
- most sure enough,
- cardcarrying,
- more sure enough,
- righteous,
- straight from horses mouth,
- sureenough,
- more true-to-life,
- more sureenough,
- unadorned,
- more true to life,
- un-doubted,
- un-adorned,
- most card carrying,
- card carrying,
- un-questionable,
- most card-carrying.
- discerning,
- choosy,
- proper,
- diligent,
- meticulous,
- particular,
- mincing,
- scrupulous,
- epicurean,
- fastidious,
- careful,
- methodical,
- punctilious,
- hypercritical,
- flawless,
- persnickety,
- dainty,
- discriminating,
- exacting,
- priggish,
- Qualmish,
- accurate,
- perspicacious,
- conscientious,
- prudish,
- picky,
- rigorous,
- correct,
- fussy,
- finicky,
- critical,
- delicate,
- prim,
- demanding,
- squeamish.
- more authenticated,
- more -carat,
- honest-to-goodness,
- most unalloyed,
- most honest-to-goodness,
- more certified,
- more honest to goodness,
- un-varnished,
- in dubitable,
- in the flesh,
- more unalloyed,
- un adulterated,
- un varnished,
- most authenticated,
- un alloyed,
- more honest-to-goodness,
- most honest to goodness,
- in flesh,
- in-dubitable,
- honest to goodness,
- real stuff,
- un-adulterated,
- un impeachable,
- un-alloyed,
- most certified,
- most -carat,
- un-impeachable,
- more carat,
- most carat.
- most nowhere,
- un-eventful,
- more hohum,
- most nothing,
- more uninspiring,
- un inspiring,
- most pabulum,
- un-inspiring,
- diddliest,
- most zero,
- more workaday,
- more pabulum,
- more ho hum,
- more nowhere,
- most hohum,
- most ho-hum,
- prosiest,
- yawnest,
- gardenvariety,
- more zero,
- prosest,
- more nothing,
- most uninspiring,
- un exceptional,
- more lusterless,
- un eventful,
- most workaday,
- un-exceptional,
- yawner,
- prosier,
- more ho-hum,
- most ho hum,
- diddlier,
- most lusterless.
- more word-for-word,
- most lexical,
- more word of mouth,
- more lingual,
- most word of mouth,
- more told,
- most lingual,
- more lexical,
- more word for word,
- ex-pressed,
- more phrasal,
- most told,
- most phrasal,
- most word-of-mouth,
- un written,
- more expressed,
- most word for word,
- more word-of-mouth,
- un-written,
- most word-for-word,
- ex pressed,
- most expressed.
n.
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- same,
- bilingual,
- code switching,
- anglophone,
- communicative competence,
- fluent,
- fidelity,
- encode,
- false beginner,
- fluency.
Other synonyms:
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- deterministic,
- theoretical,
- metaphysical,
- utopian,
- orthodox,
- central,
- conceptual,
- nonconformist,
- popular.
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•
- direct.
-
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- conventional.
- genuinely,
- nearly,
- bloomer,
- barely,
- unpretended,
- literalness,
- unconcealed,
- evangelical,
- stuffy,
- subtle,
- rendition,
- sound,
- physical,
- faultlessly,
- definitive,
- crib,
- unpatterned,
- unassuming,
- syllabic,
- authoritative,
- prima facie,
- jesuitical,
- Unspecious,
- Unconcocted,
- Unideal,
- definite,
- slip,
- unambiguous,
- blunder,
- uninventive,
- accepted,
- niggling,
- written,
- Inartificial,
- exoteric,
- uncolored,
- true-blue,
- completely,
- directly,
- just,
- precisely,
- inaccuracy,
- to the letter,
- nit-picking,
- trot,
- litigious,
- positive,
- sterling,
- out-and-out,
- substantial,
- boring,
- certainly,
- meaning,
- latent,
- perfect,
- literal translation,
- thorough,
- literally,
- tightly,
- strait-laced,
- exactly,
- finely,
- Aping,
- semantic,
- Unimitated,
- truly,
- apparent,
- Redition,
- legalistic,
- conjugate,
- clean-cut,
- loyal,
- unromantic,
- uncovered,
- honest-to-god,
- abecedarian,
- solecism,
- colourless,
- undisguised,
- particularly,
- verisimilar,
- equivalent,
- undistorted,
- straightforward,
- literatim,
- Exacter,
- down-to-earth,
- closely,
- fact,
- text,
- scientific,
- constant,
- unoriginal,
- dull,
- really,
- bona fide,
- Metaphrastic,
- Mimicking,
- unelaborated,
- unequivocal,
- graphemic,
- evident,
- veridical,
- pictographic,
- beyond doubt,
- honorable,
- candid,
- arid,
- material,
- straight,
- severely,
- unaffected,
- plainly,
- derivative,
- pure,
- uncial,
- thoroughly,
- apparently,
- properly,
- textual,
- conclusively,
- goof,
- authoritatively,
- logogrammatic,
- de facto,
- documentary,
- foul-up,
- tantamount,
- nice,
- precision,
- truely,
- gaffe,
- received,
- lettered,
- narrow,
- correctly,
- simple-minded,
- fully,
- minuscular,
- general meaning,
- specially,
- naturalistic,
- valid,
- honestly,
- ideographic,
- tangible,
- explicitly,
- unpretending,
- patent,
- so,
- unprejudiced,
- lawful,
- canonical,
- contentious,
- echt,
- undeviating,
- boob,
- majuscular,
- Clavis,
- apish,
- rightful,
- lower-case,
- Unpoetic,
- intelligible,
- observant,
- fairly,
- dictionary,
- alphabetic,
- just so,
- positively,
- infertile,
- quibbling,
- disputatious,
- nominal,
- evidently,
- approved,
- strictly,
- secondhand,
- natural,
- fault,
- sincere,
- tedious,
- clew,
- Prosing,
- printer's error,
- customary,
- dinkum,
- capital,
- as said,
- synonymous,
- boner,
- imitative,
- veritable,
- rendering,
- revealed,
- unsimulated,
- ordinary,
- well-defined,
- unimaginative,
- clear-cut,
- unadulterated,
- expressly,
- uninspired,
- transliterated,
- unfanciful,
- realistic,
- implied,
- distinctly,
- unflattering,
- Simon-pure,
- majuscule,
- Logographic,
- unbiased,
- surely,
- open,
- translation,
- polyglot,
- pony,
- legitimate,
- consummate,
- simplistic,
- unfeigned,
- unpoetical,
- fixedly,
- verified,
- rigid,
- downright,
- declaratory,
- basic,
- entirely,
- delicately,
- honest,
- express,
- titular,
- unvarnished,
- right,
- concrete,
- nonfictional,
- pettifogging,
- manifestly,
- standard,
- flawlessly,
- allographic,
- colorless,
- bald,
- sincerely,
- unwavering,
- literal-minded,
- Paraphrastic,
- verifiable,
- Paronymous,
- uncomplicated,
- Uninvented,
- christian,
- real estate,
- perfectly,
- indication,
- earthbound,
- manifest,
- fine,
- objective,
- alphabetical,
- Imitable,
- mathematical,
- essential,
- homely,
- gospel,
- virtual,
- existent,
- original,
- Cavilling,
- simple,
- naked,
- traditional,
- secret,
- flaw,
- hair-splitting,
- unexaggerated,
- punctual,
- dry,
- soundly,
- usual,
- Lexigraphic,
- stolid,
- verbatim et literatim,
- absolutely,
- etymological,
- barren,
- unmixed,
- staid,
- quite,
- curious,
- strict,
- unrhetorical,
- unassumed,
- humdrum,
- unimagined,
- firm,
- accurately,
- faultless,
- painstaking,
- clanger,
- unswerving,
- fluff,
- ostensible,
- lifelike,
- howler,
- near,
- Orthodoxical,
- scriptural,
- key,
- definitely,
- error-free,
- hard,
- PLAIN MEANING,
- Infecund,
- good,
- slip-up,
- boo-boo,
- most,
- specific,
- mundane,
- actually,
- straightforwardly,
- minuscule,
- very,
- traditionalistic,
- reliable,
- clearly,
- writing,
- cold,
- unqualified,
- truthfully,
- similar,
- not figurative,
- assuredly,
- prosy,
- identical.
Paraphrases for Literal:
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Independent
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Adjective
vocational.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
verbatim, artisanal, professional.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Literal:
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adj.
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figurative.
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word for word; exact, real
difficult, uncommon, decorated, Falsified, dishonest, unclear, embellished, ornate, imaginative, abnormal, intricate, inaccurate, loose, complex, false, different, complicated, counterfeit, unreal, extraordinary.
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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.
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