literal 音标拼音: [l'ɪtɚəl]
a . 逐字的,字面上的,文字的,字母的
n . 印刷错误
逐字的,字面上的,文字的,字母的印刷错误
literal 文字
LIT literal 文字 字面
literal adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
actual }, {
genuine }, {
literal }, {
real }]
2 :
without interpretation or embellishment ; "
a literal depiction of the scene before him "
3 :
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text ; "
a literal translation " [
ant : {
figurative }, {
nonliteral }]
4 :
avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (
used for emphasis );
"
it '
s the literal truth "
n 1 :
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [
synonym : {
misprint }, {
erratum },
{
typographical error }, {
typo }, {
literal error }, {
literal }]
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a . [
F .
lit ['
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litt ['
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L .
litteralis ,
literalis ,
fr .
littera ,
litera ,
a letter .
See {
Letter }.]
1 .
According to the letter or verbal expression ;
real ;
not figurative or metaphorical ;
as ,
the literal meaning of a phrase .
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It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide . --
Tyndale .
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2 .
Following the letter or exact words ;
not free .
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A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts .
--
Hooker .
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3 .
Consisting of ,
or expressed by ,
letters .
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The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers . --
Johnson .
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4 .
Giving a strict or literal construction ;
unimaginative ;
matter -
of -
fact ; --
applied to persons .
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{
Literal contract } (
Law ),
a contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing . --
Bouvier .
{
Literal equation } (
Math .),
an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters ; --
distinguished from a {
numerical equation }.
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Literal \
Lit "
er *
al \,
n .
Literal meaning . [
Obs .] --
Sir T .
Browne .
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150 Moby Thesaurus words for "
literal ":
Christian ,
abecedarian ,
accepted ,
allographic ,
alphabetic ,
approved ,
arid ,
authentic ,
authoritative ,
barren ,
basic ,
bona fide ,
boring ,
candid ,
canonical ,
capital ,
card -
carrying ,
colorless ,
conventional ,
correct ,
customary ,
denotative ,
dictionary ,
dinkum ,
down -
to -
earth ,
dry ,
dull ,
earthbound ,
essential ,
etymological ,
evangelical ,
exact ,
faithful ,
firm ,
following the letter ,
genuine ,
good ,
graphemic ,
honest ,
honest -
to -
God ,
humdrum ,
ideographic ,
inartificial ,
infecund ,
infertile ,
lawful ,
legitimate ,
lettered ,
lexical ,
lexigraphic ,
lifelike ,
literatim ,
logogrammatic ,
logographic ,
lower -
case ,
majuscule ,
matter -
of -
fact ,
minuscular ,
minuscule ,
mundane ,
natural ,
naturalistic ,
objective ,
of the faith ,
original ,
orthodox ,
orthodoxical ,
pictographic ,
precise ,
proper ,
prosaic ,
prosing ,
prosy ,
pure ,
real ,
realistic ,
received ,
right ,
rightful ,
scriptural ,
semantic ,
simon -
pure ,
simple ,
simplistic ,
sincere ,
sound ,
staid ,
standard ,
sterling ,
stolid ,
strict ,
stuffy ,
sure -
enough ,
tedious ,
textual ,
traditional ,
traditionalistic ,
transliterated ,
true ,
true to life ,
true to nature ,
true to reality ,
true -
blue ,
unadulterated ,
unaffected ,
unassumed ,
unassuming ,
unbiased ,
uncial ,
uncolored ,
uncomplicated ,
unconcocted ,
uncopied ,
uncounterfeited ,
undisguised ,
undisguising ,
undistorted ,
unembellished ,
unexaggerated ,
unfabricated ,
unfanciful ,
unfeigned ,
unfeigning ,
unfictitious ,
unflattering ,
unideal ,
unimaginative ,
unimagined ,
unimitated ,
uninspired ,
uninvented ,
uninventive ,
unoriginal ,
unpoetic ,
unprejudiced ,
unpretended ,
unpretending ,
unqualified ,
unromantic ,
unromanticized ,
unsimulated ,
unspecious ,
unsynthetic ,
unvarnished ,
upper -
case ,
verbal ,
verbatim ,
veridical ,
verisimilar ,
word -
for -
word
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