What is the meaning of Literally?
Word for word, exactly as stated.
- Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
As an intensifier.
- Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated: virtually, so to speak.
Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
Source: wiktionary.org
- Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
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