Answer: LITERAL
LITERAL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted over 20 times. There are related answers (shown below). Try defining LITERAL with Google.
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Precise
- Strict
- Actual
- Exact
- Unembellished
- Word for word
- Word-for-word
- Prosaic
- Verbatim
- Unimaginative
- Not loose
- Matter-of-fact
- To the letter
- Like some translations
- True to fact
- Like some interpretations
- Not exaggerated
- Not figurative
- Exactly as stated
- Without metaphor
- Without exaggeration
- Not metaphorical
- Unlike the cats and dogs in "it's raining cats and dogs"
- Unlike idioms
- True to the original
- Tell IRA (anag) — word for word
- Nonmetaphorical
- Like the phrase "seeing eye to eye" for two people who are the same height
- Like some translations or interpretations
- Kind of misprint
- Interpretation type
- Hardly figurative
- Far from figurative
- Completely straightforward
- Basic in meaning
- Avoiding wordplay
- Avoiding embellishment
Likely related crossword puzzle answers
Recent usage in crossword puzzles:
- USA Today - Nov. 20, 2024
- Evening Standard - Oct. 29, 2024
- Universal Crossword - Oct. 14, 2024
- Evening Standard - Oct. 7, 2024
- Evening Standard - Aug. 20, 2024
- Evening Standard - July 12, 2024
- Evening Standard - May 22, 2024
- Evening Standard - May 2, 2024
- Penny Dell - Jan. 1, 2024
- Evening Standard - Dec. 14, 2023
- Universal Crossword - Dec. 11, 2023
- Universal Crossword - Nov. 28, 2023
- Evening Standard - Oct. 9, 2023
- Evening Standard - July 25, 2023
- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - March 26, 2023
- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - Feb. 19, 2023
- Newsday - Oct. 14, 2022
- The Guardian Quick - Oct. 13, 2022
- WSJ Daily - Sept. 17, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2022
