English-Dutch translations for literal

• letterlijk
  Adverteren is letterlijk wat we moeten doen. Advertising in the literal sense is what we need to do.
  Dat gaat de grenzen te buiten in letterlijke zin. This literally oversteps all limits.
  De gasbevoorrading staat hier letterlijk op het spel. The gas supply is literally at stake here.
• letter
• letter-
• literaal
• strikt
  De kern van de zaak is dat die twee voorwaarden strikt genomen niet met elkaar verenigd kunnen worden. The difficulty is that if these two objectives are taken literally, a degree of contradiction arises.
  De strikte interpretatie van het Stabiliteitspact leidt ertoe dat we in tijden van overheidstekorten de openbare investeringen niet eens op peil kunnen houden. An over-literal interpretation of the Stability Pact does not even spare public investment when it comes to setting excessive deficits.
• woordelijk
  En dit wordt woordelijk zo bedoeld. And I do mean 'assent' literally.

Definition of literal

• Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical
• Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties
• Consisting of, or expressed by, letters
• Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact
• A misprint that affects a letter
• A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program
• A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.

Examples

• The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
• A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
• a literal equation
• Telemarketers are the literal worst.

Related words

• literally
• triliteral
• quadriliteral
• literalness
• biliteral
• uniliteral
• monoliteral
• quinquiliteral
• literal translation