Definition of literally

"literally" in the adverb sense

1. literally

in a literal sense

"literally translated"

"he said so literally"

2. literally

intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration

"our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"

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Quotations for literally

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

literally in Scrabble®

The word literally is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters literally:

LITERALLY
(117)
LITERALLY
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

alertly, irately, literal, reality, retally, tallier, tearily

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word literally

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In literally

LITERALLY
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LITERALLY
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literally in Words With Friends™

The word literally is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters literally:

LITERALLY
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

alertly, irately, literal, reality, retally, tallier, tearily

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word literally

LITERALLY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In literally

LITERALLY
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