Words and phrases that have a meaning related to literal: (185 results)
Antonyms:
figurative, nonliteral
Often used in the same context:
metaphorical, figurative, allegorical, metaphysical, reductive, connotative, sophoclean, ontological, semiotic, nonliteral, literalized, chthonic, aleatory, biblical, textual, denotative, adverbial, overdetermined, grand guignol, nietzschean, epistemological, portentous, purgatorial, pantheistic, ostensive, ludic, nabokovian, aphoristic, hifalutin, poetic, postmodern, unpoetic, dantean, dostoevskian, teleological, trite, wordsworthian, absurdist, phrasal, banal, fetishistic, polysyllabic, tautological, eschatological, aristotelian logic, filmic, graspable, existential, hackneyed, onomatopoetic, terminological, midrashic, placeless, hieratic, spiritualized, philosophic, memento mori, iconographic, dantesque, deathless, contentless, authorial, literal interpretation, supernal, fantastical, kabbalistic, reductio ad absurdum, artful, abstract, philosophical, intransitive, joycean, prosaic, hortatory, classical mythology, legalistic, performative, sermonic, alliterative, oneiric, solipsistic, ponderable, incommensurable, sophistic, fictive, ex nihilo, didactic, pedantic, hyperbolic, objective correlative, liminal, highfalutin, kantian, scriptural, overfamiliar, referential, cliched, descriptive, profounder, esoteric, abstract noun, cosmic, literals, integer, operand, integers, divisor, operands, datatype, multiple, binary, decimal, vocal, real, bit, identifier, instantiation, simple, string, subscript, token, eigenvalue, univocal, metaphoric, symbolical, nuanced, inaccurate, inexact, pejorative, unproblematic, euphemistic, idiomatic, imprecise, indexical, tendentious, vaguer
Appears in the definition of:
., cashier, creationism, crib, cy pres, cy pres doctrine, extended, figurative, free, fundamentalism, high, inflexible, islamism, letter, liberal, literalise, literalism, literalize, literally, loose, low, nonliteral, nosed, pony, pragmatism, realism, rhetorical device, rule of cy pres, tropical, trot
Synonyms:
Also try:actual, erratum, exact, explicit, genuine, literal error, misprint, plain, pure and simple, true, typo, typographical error, unembellished, unrhetorical, word-for-word
— Nouns for literal: sense, meaning, translation, interpretation, truth, reading, level, rendering, meanings, translations, fact, more...
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