Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

(epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter. / (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.

Able to read and write; having literacy. / Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read. / Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).

A person who is able to read and write. / (historical) A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.

(American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

plural of liter

The property of being literal.

In the way of one who is literate.

plural of literal