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literally

B2 adv

Các nghĩa

  1. theo đúng nghĩa đen

    Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

    He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.

  2. thực sự, đúng là

    With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

    I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.

  3. chơi chữ theo nghĩa đen

    Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.

    My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.

  4. thực sự, hết sức

    Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.

    colloquial

    I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.

  5. cực kỳ, vô cùng

    Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.

    proscribed · sometimes

    He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.

  6. chỉ đơn thuần, chỉ là

    Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.

    colloquial

    It's not even hard⁠ to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.

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