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literal

without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him"

limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"

avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"

Synonyms:

• 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