From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Literally \Lit"er*al*ly\, adverb
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) 2.0 [wn]:
adverb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "literally": absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects, in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly, rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word
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