Literalist

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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."
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