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literal adjective accurate, authentic, careful, close, correct, exact, factual, faithful, faultless, meticulous, precise, rigid, scrupulous, strict, textual, to the letter, true, true to fact, truthful, unchanged, uncorrupted, undeviating, unembroidered, unerring, unexaggerated, unmetaphorical, unvaried, unvarnished, verbatim, without exaggeration, word for word Associated concepts: literal interpretation See also: accurate, actual, authentic, exact, factual, faithful, honest, narrow, orthodox, parochial, precise, strict, true, verbatim How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I've heard a lot of neoconservatives and other literal-minded car huggers (``O'Goebbels'' on Fox News) compare this Iraq conflict to World War II, using outrageous analogies or even outright labeling it ``World War III. The literal-minded may note that the building's sixth story isn't mentioned, though seven tales are indeed featured. This is at times a rather literal-minded book, prone to over-simplification and even distortion when it ventures into (for example) Chartism, wages and working conditions, missing out on or under-using one or two important books (particularly Lyn Munqn's Popular leisure in the Lake Counties), and taking a few liberties with English place-names (the worst of which locates the Mendip Hills in Cheshire instead of Somerset, two hundred miles to the south). |
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