Literally

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Literally \Lit"er*al*ly\, adv.
     1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not
        figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally
        one flesh.
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     2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
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              So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be
              translated literally.                 --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  literally
       adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so
              literally" [ant: {figuratively}]
       2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without
          exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during
          the Gulf war" [syn: {virtually}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "literally":
     absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly,
     even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects,
     in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim,
     plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly,
     rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter,
     truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim,
     verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word