Literal meaning

a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

“her actual motive”

“a literal solitude like a desert”

without interpretation or embellishment

“a literal depiction of the scene before him”

limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text

“a literal translation”

avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)

“it's the literal truth”