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overliteral

adj

Etymology

From over- + literal.

  1. derived from littera
  2. derived from litteralis
  3. derived from literal
  4. inherited from literal
  5. prefixed as overliteral — “over + literal”

Definitions

  1. Excessively literal.

    • Near-synonym: hyperliteral

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overliteral. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA