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literal

English

  1. 🔊 without interpretation or embellishment
    “a literal depiction of the scene before him”
  2. 🔊 limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
    “a literal translation”
  3. 🔊 avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
    “it's the literal truth”
  4. 🔊 being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
    “her actual motive”
  5. 🔊 a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Spanish

  1. 🔊 literal literal

Similar words

misprint erratum typographical error typo literal error actual genuine real christian abecedarian accepted allographic alphabetic approved arid authentic authoritative barren basic bona fide boring candid canonical capital