| Literally 1. (adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. (adv.) With close adherence to words; word by word. Thesaurus Entries absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects, in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly, rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word |