Definitions from Wiktionary (literally)
▸ adverb: Word for word, exactly as stated.
▸ adverb: Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
▸ adverb: With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
▸ adverb: As an intensifier.
▸ adverb: (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
▸ adverb: (sometimes proscribed) Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated: virtually, so to speak.
▸ adverb: (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
I Literally Just Told You,
not literally,
not meant to be taken literally,
opposite of literally,
literally no joke,
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▸ adverb: Word for word, exactly as stated.
▸ adverb: Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
▸ adverb: With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
▸ adverb: As an intensifier.
▸ adverb: (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
▸ adverb: (sometimes proscribed) Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated: virtually, so to speak.
▸ adverb: (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
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virtually,
practically,
figuratively,
metaphorically,
basically,
just,
essentially,
almost,
actually,
simply,
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