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hyperliteral

hyperliteral adjective: extremely literal.

Adjective

hyperliteral (comparative more hyperliteral, superlative most hyperliteral)

  1. Extremely literal.
    • Near-synonym: overliteral
    • a hyperliteral translation
    Synonyms:
    overliteral

Synonyms of hyperliteral

Antonyms

Forms of hyperliteral

comparativemore hyperliteral
superlativemost hyperliteral

Origin of hyperliteral

From hyper- + literal.

Words formed from hyperliteral

Questions about hyperliteral

What does hyperliteral mean?
Hyperliteral means extremely literal.
What part of speech is hyperliteral?
Hyperliteral is an adjective.

Words near hyperliteral in the dictionary

  1. hyperlipoproteinaemic
  2. hyperlipoproteinemia
  3. hyperlipoproteinemias
  4. hyperlipoproteinemic
  5. hyperliteracy
  6. hyperliteral
  7. hyperliteralism
  8. hyperliterally
  9. hyperliterary
  10. hyperliterate
  11. hyperliterature

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