Dictionary entry

Literal

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) မူရင်းစာနှင့်တိကျစွာတူညသော။

Definition

literal / 'lÇtǝrǝl / adj ၁။ (က) တိုက္႐ိုက္။ အရိွအတိုင္း။ a literal transcript of a speech ❍ a literal translation. Compare FREE adj ၁၀ (ခ) သဒၵါအလို 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 ) ႐ိုးစင္းေသာ။ အကြန္႔အၫြန္႔ မပါေသာ။ His interpretation of the music was rather too literal. ❏ literally / 'lÇtǝrǝli / adv ၁။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ လံုးခ်င္း။ 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 ) (ေလးနက္ေစရန္ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ တကယ့္ကို။ I was literally bored to death! ❍ She literally jumped out of her seat.

Examples

  1. He is clearly not using the word ‘dead’ in its literal sense.
  2. Young children can be very literal.