Online English Dictionary

literal [adj]

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 depiction of the scene before him"

3. limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"

4. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it′s the literal truth"

literal [noun]

1. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

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noun
misprint, error, mistake, slip of the pen, typographical, typing error, mistake, corrigendum

adj
verbatim, word-for-word, strict, actual, precise, faithful, exact, factual, true, staightforward, unembellished, undistorted, objective, correct, genuine, unexaggerated, letter-for-letter, accurate, literal-minded, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense, unsentimental