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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

literally
    adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so
           literally" [ant: figuratively]
    2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without
       exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during
       the Gulf War"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Literally \Lit"er*al*ly\, adv.
   1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not
      figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally
      one flesh.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. With close adherence to words; word by word.
      [1913 Webster]

            So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be
            translated literally.                 --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Literally:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects, in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly, rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word

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