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literally::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
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our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War.
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literally translated.
he said so literally.
Examples of literally
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Most cave art from 10,000 to 35,000 years ago was done by hand, quite literally.
From the foxnews.com
We are saving money, literally, tens of millions of dollars in this fiscal year.
From the suntimes.com
Diarmuid Gavin's Irish Sky garden could have been a high point, quite literally.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It was here that he made his reputation and literally became part of the family.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It literally stinks, reeking of rotten paper, like a leaky library in a monsoon.
From the techcrunch.com
Now science has established that this is literally, as well as figuratively, so.
From the independent.co.uk
The Koran gives you principles, but you don't have to take everything literally.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Drummond is trying to illustrate that taking the Bible literally is problematic.
From the newscientist.com
As a result, I'm quite literally invested in my perspective being the right one.
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- In a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally"
- (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
- (literal) misprint: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- (literal) actual: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"
- (literal) without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him"
- (literal) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"
- (Literal (computer science)) In computer science, a literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. ...
- (Literal (mathematical logic)) In mathematical logic, a literal is an atomic formula (atom) or its negation. They mostly appear in the context of conjunctive normal form and the method of resolution.
- Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor; used as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually (often considered incorrect; see usage notes); Used as a generic downtoner: just
