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literally |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. With close adherence to words word by word So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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