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literally in Arabic

حَرْفِيًّا ḥarfiyyan

UK/ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li//ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li/

literally in Arabic: حَرْفِيًّا (ḥarfiyyan), بِٱلْحَرْف (bi-l-ḥarf). In English, literally means without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

Arabic words for literally

in a literal manner
حَرْفِيًّا ḥarfiyyan, بِٱلْحَرْف bi-l-ḥarf

English meaning of literally

  1. adverb Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
  2. adverb With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
  3. adverb Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
  4. adverb Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.

Full definition of literally

literally in a sentence

  • He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.
  • There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.
  • When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.

Synonyms of literally

All synonyms of literally

literally in other languages

Questions about literally in Arabic

What is the meaning of literally in Arabic?
Literally in Arabic is حَرْفِيًّا (ḥarfiyyan), بِٱلْحَرْف (bi-l-ḥarf).
ما معنى كلمة literally؟
Literally: حَرْفِيًّا (ḥarfiyyan), بِٱلْحَرْف (bi-l-ḥarf).
What does literally mean in English?
Literally means without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

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