Word Meanings - ILLITERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not literal. B. Dawson.

Related words: (words related to ILLITERAL)

• LITERALNESS
  The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
• LITERALIST
  One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
• LITERALLY
  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.
• DAWSONITE
  A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
• LITERALISM
  The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. (more info) 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
• LITERAL
  1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale 2. Following the letter or exact words;
• LITERALIZER
  A literalist.
• LITERALITY
  The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.
• LITERALIZE
  To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
• LITERALIZATION
  The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
• BILITERALISM
  The property or state of being biliteral.
• ILLITERAL
  Not literal. B. Dawson.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• UNILITERAL
  Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.
• TRILITERALISM
  See TRILITERALITY
• QUADRILITERAL
  Consisting of four letters.
• TRILITERAL
  Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word. -- n.
• DUOLITERAL
  Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. Stuart.
• QUINQUELITERAL
  Consisting of five letters.
• BILITERAL
  Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.
• TRILITERALITY; TRILITERALNESS
  The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots. W. D. Whitney.