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"2. without interpretation or embellishment;
"a literal translation of the scene before him"3. limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text;
"a literal translation"4. lacking stylistic embellishment;
"a literal description""wrote good but plain prose""a plain unadorned account of the coronation""a forthright unembellished style"5. of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis;
"it's the literal truth""a matter of investment, pure and simple"6. (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original;
"literal translation of the article""an awkward word-for-word translation"