Literal meaning

Synonyms for "literal meaning" (66 found)

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Closest matches (14)

affective meaningbearing coloring connotation consequence denotation drift effect essence

Noun(4 words)

denotationdenotative meaningexact meaningexact wording

Adjective(1 words)

direct meaning

Strong matches (19)

Noun(5 words)

explicit meaningface value readingliteral readingliteral senseplain sense

extension force gistgrammatical meaningidea impact implication import intensionlexical meaningmeaning overtone pertinence pith

Related words (33)

Noun(3 words)

plain wordingsurface meaningverbatim sense

pointpractical consequencepurportrange of meaningreal meaningreference referent relation relevance scopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsense significance signification significatum signifiespan of meaningspiritstructural meaning

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substance sumsum and substancesymbolic meaningtenortotality of associationstransferred meaningunadorned meaningundertone value

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More general

8 entries

denotation interpretationlinguistic meaningmeaning readingsemantic meaningsemanticstextual meaning

More specific

10 entries

denotative sensedictionary meaningface value readingliteral definitionliteral statementplain senseprecise wordingsurface meaningsurface readingsurface-level comprehension

Collocations

9 entries

denotative meaningdictionary meaningliteral exampleliteral interpretationliteral languageliteral senseliteral translationplain readingsurface reading

Inflections

3 entries

literal meaningsmore literalmost literal

Derivations

6 entries

literalism literalist literalistic literalize literally literalness

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