| Main Entry: | literal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
Synonyms: |
accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, not figurative, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, to the letter, true, undeviating, unerring, unexaggerated, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written |
Antonyms: |
exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |
| Main Entry: | accurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | precise |
Synonyms: |
authentic, careful, close, concrete, correct, defined, definite, deft, detailed, discriminating, discriminative, distinct, exact, explicit, factual, faithful, genuine, judicious, just, literal, matter-of-fact, methodical, meticulous, on the button, on the money, on the nose, particular, proper, punctilious, punctual, regular, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, severe, sharp, skillful, solid, specific, strict, systematic, true, ultraprecise, unerring, unmistakable, veracious |
Antonyms: |
careless, faulty, inaccurate, lax, vague |
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
Synonyms: |
austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, scant, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, unornamented |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
Antonyms: |
adorned, decorated |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accurate, precise |
Synonyms: |
conscientious, exact, faithful, lifelike, literal, resembling, similar, strict |
Antonyms: |
far, imprecise, inaccurate |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unoriginal |
Synonyms: |
bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight |
Antonyms: |
different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique |
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accurate, precise |
Synonyms: |
bull's-eye, careful, clear, clear-cut, correct, dead on, definite, distinct, downright, explicit, express, faithful, faultless, identical, literal, methodical, nailed down, nice, on target, on the button, on the money, on the numbers, orderly, particular, perfect, right, right on, rigorous, sharp, specific, true, unequivocal, unerring, veracious, verbal, verbatim |
Antonyms: |
approximate, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact |
| Main Entry: | factual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | real, correct |
Synonyms: |
absolute, accurate, actual, authentic, card-carrying, certain, circumstantial, close, credible, descriptive, exact, faithful, genuine, hard, kosher*, legit, legitimate, literal, objective, on the level, positive, precise, righteous, specific, straight from horse's mouth, sure, sure-enough, true, true-to-life, unadorned, unbiased, undoubted, unquestionable, valid, veritable |
Antonyms: |
biased, false, imprecise, incorrect, unfactual, untruthful |
| Main Entry: | genuine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authentic, real |
Synonyms: |
-carat, 24-carat, absolute, accurate, actual, authenticated, bona fide, certain, certified, demonstrable, exact, existent, factual, for real, good, hard, honest, honest-to-goodness, in the flesh, indubitable, kosher*, legit, legitimate, literal, natural, official, original, palpable, plain, positive, precise, proved, pure, real stuff, sound, sterling, sure-enough, tested, true, unadulterated, unalloyed, undoubted, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unvarnished, valid, veritable, very, whole |
Antonyms: |
counterfeit, false, illegitimate, sham, unreal |
| Main Entry: | precise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exact, accurate |
Synonyms: |
absolute, actual, categorical, circumscribed, clear-cut, correct, decisive, definite, determinate, explicit, express, fixed, individual, limited, literal, narrow, nice, on the button, on the money, on the nose, particular, proper, restricted, right, rigid, rigorous, specific, strict, stringent, unequivocal, very, well-defined |
Antonyms: |
ambiguous, false, imprecise, inaccurate, inexact, questionable |
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
Synonyms: |
actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of- fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero* |
Antonyms: |
creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |