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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | word for word; exactly |
| Synonyms: | actually, completely, correctly, direct, directly, faithfully, indisputably, letter by letter, literatim, not figuratively, plainly, precisely, really, rightly, rigorously, sic, simply, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, undisputably, unerringly, unmistakably, verbatim, veritably |
| Notes: | literally means 'with truth to the letter; exactly' or according to the strictest sense of the word or words, while figuratively means 'by or as a figure of speech; metaphorically', or 'in a descriptive, analogous, but metaphorical sense of the word or words |
| Antonyms: | figuratively, loosely |
| Main Entry: | word for word |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | using exactly the same words |
| Synonyms: | according to the letter, faithfully, in the same words, ipsissimis verbis, literally, literatim, strictly, to the letter, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word and letter for letter, word-perfectly |
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