English-Finnish translations for literal

kirjaimellinenAsia ratkaistaan tunnustamalla, että äärifundamentalistinen ja kirjaimellinen islam on ristiriidassa länsimaisen liberaalin demokratian ja itse asiassa kaikenlaisten sivilisaatioiden kanssa. The solution is to recognise that fundamentalist, extremist and literal Islam is incompatible with Western liberal democracy and indeed any kind of civilisation.
sananmukainen

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.

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.

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