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to the letter

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literal adj.
verbatim adj.
literally adv.
word for word adv.

ADJECTIVE

literal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accurate actual authentic true unvarnished

STRONG

close faithful gospel natural ordinary plain simple

WEAK

apparent bona fide critical genuine methodical not figurative scrupulous strict undeviating unerring unexaggerated usual veracious verbal verbatim veritable written

Antonyms

STRONGEST

counterfeit dishonest false falsified unreal

STRONG

abnormal complex complicated decorated different difficult embellished extraordinary inaccurate intricate ornate unclear uncommon

WEAK

exaggerated figurative imaginative loose

ADJECTIVE

verbatim

Synonyms

WEAK

accurately direct directly literally literatim precisely sic word-for-word

Antonyms

WEAK

different

ADVERB

literally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

actually completely directly plainly precisely really simply truly

WEAK

correctly direct faithfully indisputably letter by letter literatim not figuratively rightly rigorously sic straight strictly undeviatingly undisputably unerringly unmistakably verbatim veritably

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully

WEAK

figuratively loosely

ADVERB

word for word

Synonyms

WEAK

according to the letter faithfully in the same words ipsissimis verbis literally literatim strictly verbally verbatim verbatim et litteratim word by word word for word and letter for letter word-perfectly

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to the letter

Signatories to the letter said the redundancies were "the first visible crack" in a UK automotive supply chain supporting about 183,000 manufacturing jobs.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Lillie provided lists of thousands of suspicious transactions to the U.S. attorney’s office, according to the letter viewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

On Wednesday evening, some of his victims reacted angrily to the letter.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Over time, her team identified a number of serious deficiencies in the bank’s antifraud program, according to the letter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“If it was fair, that was in the bond, and I stand to the letter of my bond, Shylock. There is a pile of clouds in the east, it’s not fair, and I don’t go.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

to the letter

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