• a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
• without interpretation or embellishment; "a Literal translation of the scene before him"
• (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; "Literal translation of the article"; "an awkward word-for-word translation"
• limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a Literal translation"
• of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it''s the Literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
• lacking stylistic embellishment; "a Literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
• 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"

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