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