literal

adj. verbatim, following the letter or exact words of the original, word for word; factual; accurate; relating to or expressed in letters

Literal may refer to:Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense.Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text.Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars.Literal (mathematical logic), an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions.Any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, an object literal, string literal, or function literal.A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression.An adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.Literalism, the practice of being a literal person.Literalism, a late-20th century method of composing music using physical representations of elements of musical composition to create everything from classical orchestral pieces to apparently formless moments of noise.
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Noun
1. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
(synonym) misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error
(hypernym) error, mistake
Adjective
1. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"
(synonym) actual, genuine, real
(similar) true
2. without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal translation of the scene before him"
(similar) exact
3. limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"
(antonym) figurative, nonliteral
(similar) denotative, explicit
(see-also) exact
4. lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
(synonym) plain, unembellished
(similar) unrhetorical
5. of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
(synonym) pure and simple
(similar) plain
6. (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; "literal translation of the article"; "an awkward word-for-word translation"
(synonym) word-for-word
(similar) exact

adj. literal, verbatim

adj. literal, textual; verbal, verbatim