n. A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law.
n. A person who translates text literally.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
n. In art, an exact copyist; one who draws or paints with unimaginative exactness.
Word Usage
"Some literalist is probably at this moment self-inflicting a herniated disc with head-shaking and complaining that anabolic steroids weren't synthesized until around the 1930s."