Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
in a literal sense;
- Example: "literally translated"- Example: "he said so literally"2.
(intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration;
- Example: "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Literally \Lit"er*al*ly\, adv.
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not
figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally
one flesh.
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2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
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So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be
translated literally. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
literally
adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so
literally" [ant: figuratively]
2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without
exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during
the Gulf War"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "literally":
absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly,
even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects,
in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim,
plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly,
rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter,
truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim,
verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word