literal
I
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, undistorted, unembroidered, unerring, unexaggerated, unfigurative, ungarbled, unmetaphorical, unvaried, unvarnished, veracious, verbatim, without exaggeration, word for word
associated concepts: literal interpretation
II
index
accurate, actual, authentic, exact, factual, faithful (true to fact), honest, narrow, orthodox, parochial, precise, strict, true (authentic), verbatim
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006