transcription, транскрипция: [ lɪtərəli ]
1.
You can use literally to emphasize a statement. Some careful speakers of English think that this use is incorrect.
We’ve got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up...
The views are literally breath-taking.
ADV : ADV with cl / group (not last in cl ), ADV before v [ emphasis ]
2.
You use literally to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising.
Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people...
I literally crawled to the car.
ADV : ADV with cl / group (not last in cl ), ADV before v [ emphasis ]
3.
If a word or expression is translated literally , its most simple or basic meaning is translated.
The word ‘volk’ translates literally as ‘folk’...
A stanza is, literally, a room.
ADV : ADV with v , ADV with cl
4.
If you take something literally , you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
If you tell a person to ‘step on it’ or ‘throw on your coat,’ they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
PHRASE : V inflects