Synonyms of the word literal


LITERALACTUAL - DENOTATIVE - ERRATUM - ERROR - EXACT - EXPLICIT - GENUINE - MISPRINT - MISTAKE - PLAIN - REAL - TRUE - TYPO - UNRHETORICAL

literal

  • adj. Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal…
  • adj. Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
  • adj. (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
  • adj. (of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
  • n. (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
  • n. (logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.

actual

  • adj. Existing in act or reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
  • adj. Factual, real, not just apparent or even false.
  • adj. (dated) In action at the time being; now existing; current.
  • adj. (obsolete) Active, not passive.
  • adj. Used to emphasise a noun or verb, whether something is real or metaphorical.
  • n. An actual, real one; notably.

denotative

  • adj. That denotes or names; designative.
  • adj. Specific to the primary meaning of a term.

erratum

  • n. An error, especially one in a printed work.

error

  • n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
  • n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
  • n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
  • n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
  • n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
  • n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
  • n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
  • v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
  • v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
  • v. (nonstandard) To err.

exact

  • adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor…
  • adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
  • adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  • adj. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism…
  • v. (transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
  • v. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.
  • adv. exactly.

explicit

  • adj. Very specific, clear, or detailed.
  • adj. (euphemistic) Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic.
  • adj. (obsolete) Used at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

genuine

  • adj. Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false,…

misprint

  • n. An accidental mistake in print.
  • v. To make a misprint.

mistake

  • n. An error; a blunder.
  • n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
  • v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
  • v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

plain

  • adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
  • adj. Simple.
  • adj. Obvious.
  • adj. Open.
  • adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • adv. (colloquial) Simply.
  • n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
  • n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • n. A battlefield.
  • n. (obsolete) A plane.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

real

  • adj. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
  • adj. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
  • adj. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
  • adj. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
  • adj. That has objective, physical existence.
  • adj. (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast…
  • adj. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic…
  • adj. (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence…
  • adj. (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.
  • adj. Absolute, complete, utter.
  • adj. (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess…
  • adv. (US, colloquial) Really, very.
  • n. A commodity; see realty.
  • n. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  • n. (mathematics) A real number.
  • n. (obsolete) A realist.
  • n. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
  • n. A coin worth one real.
  • n. A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until…
  • n. A coin worth one real.
  • n. A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
  • n. A coin worth one real.

true

  • adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
  • adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
  • adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
  • adj. Loyal, faithful.
  • adj. Genuine.
  • adj. Legitimate.
  • adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
  • adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
  • adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
  • n. Truth.
  • n. The state of being in alignment.
  • v. To straighten.
  • v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

typo

  • n. A typographical error.
  • v. To make a typographical error.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A compositor; a typographer.

unrhetorical

  • adj. Not rhetorical.

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