Crossword-Solution: LITERALLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Literally | adv. | According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. |
| Literally | adv. | With close adherence to words; word by word. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “LITERALLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| in a literal manner | 1 answer |
| Opposite of figuratively | 1 answer |
| Not figuratively | 1 answer |
| Exactly, or not exactly | 1 answer |
| Word-for-word, without exaggeration | 1 answer |
| According to the precise meaning of words | 1 answer |
| Strictly speaking | 4 answers |
| Word for word | 11 answers |
| unerringly | 31 answers |
| rightfully | 31 answers |
| lawfully | 32 answers |
| factually | 32 answers |
| duly | 32 answers |
| fittingly | 34 answers |
| Actually | 34 answers |
| doubtlessly | 34 answers |
| equitably | 35 answers |
| ACCEPTABLY | 36 answers |
| Legally | 36 answers |
| suitably | 36 answers |
| spot on | 36 answers |
| on the dot | 36 answers |
| Appropriately. | 37 answers |
| Just so | 38 answers |
| Verbatim | 38 answers |
| Correctly | 41 answers |
| As a matter of fact ... | 44 answers |
| justifiably | 47 answers |
| Perfectly | 47 answers |
| rightly | 49 answers |
| Properly | 54 answers |
| In Reality | 56 answers |
| in truth | 56 answers |
| justly | 56 answers |
| IN actuality | 57 answers |
| Accurately | 62 answers |
| closely | 70 answers |
| Truly | 70 answers |
| Precisely | 82 answers |
| Exactly | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LITERALLY (5)
This woman’s back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, _religious_ wretch.
She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.
FOOTNOTES 4 (return) [ The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost.] 5 (return) [ To avoid the blessing, still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace; literally, “For what generous man is not (in befriending others) a friend to himself?”] 6 (return) [ Creon desires to bury Oedipus on the confines of Thebes so as to avoid the pollution and yet offer due rites at his tomb.
This is sometimes also called a dotted quad; there are literally thousands of different possible dotted quads.
Enfield: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.
Quotes with LITERALLY (3)
She didn't understand that. "How can anyone be afraid of love?""How can they not?" His face was completely aghast. "When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt — you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's cri…
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.
Oh, Cameron," Eldon replied in a whisper, moving closer and brushing his lips over Cameron's mouth. "You are literally the very reason my heart beats. Nothing I have lost can compare with the love in you I have found.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1982–2023).