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literally meaning in Hindi

दाल में कुछ काला होना dāl mẽ kuch kālā honā

UK/ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li//ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li/

literally in Hindi: दाल में कुछ काला होना (dāl mẽ kuch kālā honā). In English, literally means without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

Hindi words for literally

Literally, “For something black to be in the lentils”
दाल में कुछ काला होना dāl mẽ kuch kālā honā

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 Hindi

What is the meaning of literally in Hindi?
Literally in Hindi is दाल में कुछ काला होना (dāl mẽ kuch kālā honā).
literally का हिंदी में क्या अर्थ है?
Literally: दाल में कुछ काला होना (dāl mẽ kuch kālā honā).
What does literally mean in English?
Literally means without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

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Hindi words from Wiktionary's Hindi entries whose English meaning is “literally”: दाल में कुछ काला होना. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: literally (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Hindi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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