English-Spanish translations for literally

• literalmente
  Esto se ha dicho aquí, literalmente. This has been said here, literally.
  Lo indicamos literalmente en dicho texto. We literally said this in that text.
  Se trata, pues, literalmente de una verdadera explosión. It is, therefore, literally an explosion.
• literal

Definition of literally

• word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
• virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes
• just, merely

Examples

• When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan
• He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air
• My daughters pet rabbit had babies, and now weve literally got rabbits coming out of our ears
• I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
• I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
• She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
• You literally put it in the microwave for five minutes and its done

Related words

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