Hypertext Webster Gateway: "literally"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be
translated literally. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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" [syn: {virtually}]
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