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Crossword-Solution: LITERAL 7 letters, 76 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Literal a. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not
figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
Literal a. Following the letter or exact words; not free.
Literal a. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
Literal a. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative;
matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
Literal n. Literal meaning.

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LITERAL anagram TALLIER

We have 76 clues for the answer “LITERAL”

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Exact (translation) 1 answer
According to the letter 1 answer
As opposed to figurative. 1 answer
At face value 1 answer
Avoiding wordplay 1 answer
Basic in meaning 1 answer
Completely straightforward 1 answer
FOLLOWING exact words 1 answer
Far from figurative 1 answer
Following the exact words. 1 answer
Hardly figurative 1 answer
Interpretation type 1 answer
Like some meanings 1 answer
Like some translations or interpretations 1 answer
Like the phrase "seeing eye to eye" for two people who are the same height 1 answer
Not exaggerated 1 answer
Not figurative 1 answer
Nonmetaphorical 1 answer
Not metaphorical 1 answer
Reproduced word for word 1 answer
Strict, in a sense 1 answer
True to the fact. 1 answer
True to the original 1 answer
Unlike idioms 1 answer
Unlike the cats and dogs in "it's raining cats and dogs" 1 answer
Without metaphor 1 answer
Like some translations 2 answers
Like some interpretations 2 answers
Exactly as stated 2 answers
Written 3 answers
Word-for-word 3 answers
Without exaggeration 3 answers
True to fact 3 answers
to-be-precise 4 answers
To the letter 5 answers
Lacking imagination 7 answers
Not loose 9 answers
A MATTER THAT IS AN ACTUAL FACT OR IS DEMONSTRABLE AS A FACT 10 answers
AND SIMPLE PURE 10 answers
ACTUAL NAME OF NABOKOV'S 10 answers
ADVOCATED A LOOSE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND HIGH PROTECTIVE TARIFFS 10 answers
Word for word 11 answers
A MATTER-OF-FACT APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM 11 answers
Matter-of-fact 14 answers
Unembellished 15 answers
rhetorically 18 answers
outloud 18 answers
lexical 18 answers
Verbally 19 answers
Orally 22 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble LITERAL7-letter words that start with L7-letter words that end in L7-letter words containing IT7-letter words containing AL7-letter words with L and I

Sentences with LITERAL (5)

This is incorrect according to standard American usage (which would put the continuation commas and the final period inside the string quotes); however, it is counter-intuitive to hackers to mutilate literal strings with characters that don't belong in them.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
But within this broad field the attendees represented a variety of formal, informal, figurative, and literal groups, with many individuals belonging to more than one.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Here, as elsewhere, he exercised the liberty of a creative mind to heighten the probability of his pictures without confining himself to a literal description of something he had seen.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
The Frenchman wrote little lessons for him in English and had Tarzan repeat them in French, but as a literal translation was usually very poor French Tarzan was often confused.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with LITERAL (3)

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.
Cassandra Clare Clockwork Angel
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that w…
Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 86 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).