Word "LITERAL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
Synonyms:
actual, genuine, real
Examples:
a literal solitude like a desert

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Synonyms:
erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
Examples:
it's the literal truth

Crossword Clues for LITERAL

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Clue Source Date
Not figurative Commuter 19 Aug 2025
It's a mistake to endlessly ill-treat daft characters (7)
Like the interpretations of the children's book character Amelia Bedelia
A tiller turned out to be exact (7) Mirror Cryptic 27 Jun 2025
Verbatim (7) Mirror Quick 27 Jun 2025
Unimaginative in a basic sense (7)
Genuine printing error
Word for word Mirror Classic 01 Jun 2025
Spelling OK all-rite is a mistake in print (7)
Illuminated real place to the letter (7) Puzzler Cryptic 30 May 2025
Unadorned parts of wall are tiled over
Not figurative Commuter 22 May 2025
Actual rate is ill-prepared (7)
Word-for-word, verbatim (7)
A tiller turned out to be exact Mirror Cryptic 08 May 2025
Verbatim Mirror Quick 08 May 2025
A mistake in print; not metaphorical (7)
Word for word from a tiller (7) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Apr 2025
A tiller translated verbatim (7)
Alliterative quotation arranged word for word (7)
Exact (translation) (7)
To the letter (as opposed to figurative) (7)
Illuminated real place to the letter (7) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Mar 2025
A tiller turned out to be exact Mirror Cryptic 13 Mar 2025
Verbatim Mirror Quick 13 Mar 2025
It's a mistake to print it word for word (7)
Undeviating region lying along a shore, reportedly (7)
Direct (translation) (7)
Word-for-word but a mistake in printing (7)
Ill-treat endlessly - a change is certainly not figurative (7)
The meaning of tallier, as read (7)
Actual line I alter for reproduction (7)
Not being metaphorical, it is wrong to have printed it (7)
Not figurative Commuter 25 Nov 2024
Like the phrase "seeing eye to eye" for two people who are the same height USA Today 20 Nov 2024
I'll tear about, word-for-word (7) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Nov 2024
Verbatim Mirror Quick 31 Oct 2024
A tiller reworked to be exact Mirror Cryptic 31 Oct 2024
Word-for-word Universal 14 Oct 2024
Moved a tiller, to be precise (7)
Word for word from a tiller (7) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Oct 2024
Word for word The Times Concise 03 Oct 2024
Maybe let liar be taken word for word (7)
Not being figurative, the wrong letter appears in type (7)
Later at No. 51, we get it word for word (7)
Word-for-word (7) Puzzler 22 Sep 2024
Verbatim Mirror Quick 04 Sep 2024
A tiller turned out to be exact Mirror Cryptic 04 Sep 2024
All wrong about a strange rite, it's true (7)
A printing mistake (7)
Let rail transport be kind of pedestrian (7)
A mistake in print making it 'all rite' perhaps (7)
As said, I'll tear about (7)
Verbatim Mirror Quick 07 Jun 2024
I'll tear off, to be exact Mirror Cryptic 07 Jun 2024
Wrong letter printed excluding metaphors? The Times Cryptic 28 May 2024
Following the letter
Real drunk, real drunk
Not metaphorical or figurative Family Time 13 May 2024
According to the letter, it's illuminated with real variation (7)
To let liar loose could be a mistake in print (7)
True of the Italian returning later curiously (7)
Fired with real reform and no exaggeration
Faithful, accurate (7)
All tire badly, to be exact
According to the letter it will retail for fifty (7)
Verbatim The Sun Two Speed 10 Mar 2024
Dull drunk left on time The Sun Two Speed 10 Mar 2024
According to the letter (7)
Mistake in a printed text (7)
A tiller taken word for word (7)
Excited examination of the shore (7)
Rite all translated word for word
Not figurative Universal 11 Dec 2023
Word-for-word Universal 28 Nov 2023
Genuine error made by printer The Times Cryptic 29 Jun 2023
Word for word wickedly retail lie that is banned The Times Cryptic 12 Jun 2023
Not figurative Thomas Joseph 12 Jun 2023
True-to-fact Premier Sunday 04 Jun 2023
Word-for-word New York Times 30 May 2023
Opposite of "figurative"
Error made by learners about current time period The Times Cryptic 19 Apr 2023
Something signifying a huge amount in colloquial little typo The Guardian Cryptic 13 Jan 2023
Word-for-word Newsday 14 Oct 2022
Unimaginative drunk left after considerable time The Times Cryptic 14 Oct 2022
Exactly as stated Wall Street Journal 17 Sep 2022
True to the original The Washington Post 01 Apr 2022
True to the original LA Times Daily 01 Apr 2022
Basic in meaning The Washington Post Sunday 13 Feb 2022
Volume of Poe’s — maybe a line shows misprint The Times Cryptic 11 Feb 2022
Genuine misprint
Faithful to the original Gospel? Irish Times Crosaire 14 Aug 2021
Drunk, real smashed to be precise
Verbatim The Telegraph Quick 02 May 2021
Boring drunk left after time The Sun Two Speed 18 Jan 2021
Without metaphor Newsday 27 Dec 2020
Good books are put up online verbatim
In 50/50, is tie break oddly strict?
Misprint in literature on period of history ending in turmoil The Telegraph Cryptic 11 May 2020
Gospel burning with real abandon The Sun Two Speed 06 Feb 2020
Word for word The Sun Two Speed 06 Feb 2020
Faithful to the original Gospel? Irish Times Crosaire 01 Feb 2020
Lo-cal treacle taken regularly, as stated on the tin
Dull drunk left on time
Misprint 51 later corrected
Word-for-word Universal 12 Apr 2019
Not figurative The Times Concise 06 Mar 2019
Textual error in a line at end of American volume The Telegraph Toughie 30 Jan 2019
Word-for-word
Unimaginative literature, real mess The Sun Two Speed 04 Nov 2018
Verbatim The Sun Two Speed 04 Nov 2018
Unlike idioms LA Times Daily 21 Oct 2018
Unlike idioms The Washington Post 21 Oct 2018
Following the exact meaning The Telegraph Quick 20 Aug 2018
Mistake in printing word for word
Not figurative Thomas Joseph 02 Apr 2018
Unlike idioms
Word-for-word USA Today 14 Dec 2017
Misprint in volume of Alcott heading a line
Like some translations or interpretations The Chronicle of Higher Education 31 Mar 2017
Word-for-word Premier Sunday 05 Feb 2017
Like some translations or interpretations
Word-for-word
Misprint lines introducing irate broadcast The Telegraph Toughie 25 Dec 2016
Error excluding metaphors
Accurate misprint
Unembellished Wall Street Journal 02 Jul 2016
Verbatim The Guardian Speedy 13 Mar 2016
Like some translations Universal 31 Jan 2016
Actual The Telegraph Quick 13 Jan 2016
Like some translations
Actual misprint
Learner's reality endlessly translating word for word
Word for word mistake
It all gets broadcast, including Queen's typo …
Strict
Like some interpretations
True to fact
Not exaggerated
Not exaggerated
Without exaggeration
Nonmetaphorical
Word-for-word
Nonmetaphorical
Word-for-word
Not metaphorical
Not metaphorical
Without metaphor
Not metaphorical
Completely straightforward
Verbatim
Hardly figurative
Hardly figurative
At face value
Verbatim
Without metaphor
Word-for-word
Like some translations
True to fact
Like some translations
Like some translations
Word-for-word
Not exaggerated
Strict, in a sense
Interpretation type
Reproduced word for word
Like some translations
Unimaginative
Precise
Not figurative
Exact
True to fact
Word for word
Verbatim
Like some meanings
Without exaggeration
Not loose
Actual
Prosaic
Matter-of-fact
Word-for-word
Far from figurative
To the letter
Not figurative
Unimaginative.
Following the exact words.
Not exaggerated
True to fact.
Word for word.
As opposed to figurative.
Matter-of-fact.
Not figurative.
To the letter.
Verbatim.
Word-for-word.
Written.
True to the fact.
Unembellished
Prosaic.
Exact.
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