English-French translations for literal

• littéral
  Nous invitons les trois autorités budgétaires à prendre ce message au sens littéral. The three budgetary authorities are asked to take this message literally.
  Notre pays et ses citoyens sont foulés aux pieds dans le sens le plus littéral du terme, sans égards. Our country and its citizens are being ridden over roughshod in the most literal sense of the word, regardless.
  Ces énergies peuvent être employées au niveau local sur une échelle très limitée et bon marché, ce qui permet également aux populations de s'assumer, au sens littéral du terme. They can be employed locally on a very small and inexpensive scale, which is also, in a very literal sense, empowering people.
• épistolaire
• littéraux

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