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literal

/ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)l/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)l/
literal
Syllables
3 syllables
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li - te - ral -> literal

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မူရင်းစာနှင့်တိကျစွာတူညသော။

Full entry

literal / 'lÇtǝrǝl / adj

၁။ (က) တိုက်ရိုက်။ အရှိအတိုင်း။
a literal transcript of a speech ❍ a literal translation. Compare FREE adj ၁၀
(ခ) သဒ္ဒါအလို အရ။ His story is incredible in the literal sense of the word (ie It is impossible to believe it). Compare FIGURATIVE, METAPHORICAL
၂။ (esp derog ) ရိုးစင်းသော။ အကွန့်အညွန့် မပါသော။ His interpretation of the music was rather too literal.
❏ literally / 'lÇtǝrǝli / adv
၁။ တိုက်ရိုက်။ လုံးချင်း။ Idioms usually cannot be translated literally in another language. ❍ When I tell someone to ‘get lost’ I don’t expect to be taken literally.
၂။ (infml ) (လေးနက်စေရန် သုံးသည့်စကား)။ တကယ့်ကို။ I was literally bored to death! ❍ She literally jumped out of her seat.

More examples
  • He is clearly not using the word ‘dead’ in its literal sense.
  • Young children can be very literal.
Synonyms
factual, truthful, honest, exact, accurate, unembroidered, unembellished, plain, bare, unvarnished, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, correct, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, misprint, natural, not figurative, ordinary, precise, real, scrupulous, simple, strict, to the letter, true, undeviating, unerring, unexaggerated, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, word for word, written
Antonyms
abnormal, complex, complicated, counterfeit, decorated, different, difficult, dishonest, embellished, exaggerated, extraordinary, false, falsified, figurative, imaginative, inaccurate, intricate, loose, ornate, unclear, uncommon, unreal
Cross references
factualtruthfulhonestexactaccurateunembroideredunembellishedplainbareunvarnishedactualapparentauthenticbona fideclosecorrectcriticalfaithfulgenuinegospelmethodicalmisprintnaturalnot figurativeordinarypreciserealscrupulous
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