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The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
Marilynne Robinson

Meaning of "literalist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LITERALIST

literalist  [ˈlɪtərəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITERALIST

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Literalist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LITERALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Literal

Literal may refer to: ▪ Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense ▪ Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text ▪ Literal legal interpretations also referred to as Strict constructionism and the literal or plain meaning rule ▪ Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars ▪ Literal, an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions ▪ Literal, a notation for representing a value within programming language source code ▪ Literal, a quarterly bilingual magazine ▪ A typographical error, normally to one letter or number ▪ A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression...

Definition of literalist in the English dictionary

The definition of literalist in the dictionary is someone who tends to take words and statements in their literal sense. Other definition of literalist is someone who translates language or text literally.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITERALIST


agriculturalist
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəlɪst
Antifederalist
ˌæntɪˈfɛdərəlɪst
Federalist
ˈfɛdərəlɪst
generalist
ˈdʒɛnərəlɪst
horticulturalist
ˌhɔːtɪˈkʌltʃərəlɪst
humoralist
ˈhjuːmərəlɪst
liberalist
ˈlɪbərəlɪst
mineralist
ˈmɪnərəlɪst
multiculturalist
ˌmʌltɪˈkʌltʃərəlɪst
multilateralist
ˌmʌltɪˈlætərəlɪst
muralist
ˈmjʊərəlɪst
pastoralist
ˈpɑːstərəlɪst
pluralist
ˈplʊərəlɪst
poststructuralist
ˌpəʊstˈstrʌktʃərəlɪst
ruralist
ˈrʊərəlɪst
structuralist
ˈstrʌktʃərəlɪst
supernaturalist
ˌsuːpəˈnætʃərəlɪst
trilateralist
traɪˈlætərəlɪst
unicameralist
ˌjuːnɪˈkæmərəlɪst
unilateralist
ˈjuːnɪˈlætərəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITERALIST

literacy project
literacy test
literae humaniores
literal
literal error
literal-minded
literal-mindedness
literalisation
literaliser
literalism
literalistic
literalistically
literality
literalization
literalize
literalizer
literally
literalness
literarily
literariness

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITERALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
finalist
fundamentalist
hospitalist
idealist
journalist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
specialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of literalist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «literalist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITERALIST

Find out the translation of literalist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of literalist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «literalist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字面
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

literalista
570 millions of speakers

English

literalist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूलवादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حرفيا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

буквалист
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

literalista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আক্ষরিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

littéraliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Literalis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

literalist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

literalist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

직역
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Literalist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

literalist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

literalist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्दशः
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zahirî
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

letteralista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dosłownego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

букваліст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

literal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

literalist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

literalist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

literalist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

literalist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of literalist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIST»

The term «literalist» is normally little used and occupies the 109.431 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about literalist

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QUOTES WITH «LITERALIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word literalist.
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Marilynne Robinson
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERALIST»

Discover the use of literalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to literalist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Christ Literalist: Complete Quotes from the World's Most ...
About life and death? Liberty and justice? What did he say about lust and greed? Family, marriage and divorce? "The Christ Literalist" is an attempt to consolidate His Word, i.e., at least, the words he actually spoke, into one volume.
Lou Meza, 2006
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Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
FIRST PRESENTATION The June 1916 issue of the Egoist in which Moore's " Pedantic Literalist" appeared was the first to bear H.D. 's name on the masthead. As Weaver explained the addition in a "Notice to Readers": "Mr. Aldington will ...
Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze, 2002
3
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
In response, Fried contended the literalist object's formal gestalt was all that was of interest in the object's hollowness. From the critic's vantage point, the literalist artists' versions of the gestalt structured into their objects, conflated their art ...
Ron Graziani, 2004
4
Omissions are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore
their absence of "good" motivation leads respectively to a literal and figurative woodenness and frozenness, the Pedantic Literalist and Statecraft Embalmed follow rigidly and frigidly certain rules of conduct. In the "Pedantic Literalist," motive ...
Jeanne Heuving, 1992
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The Construction of Reality
Our discussion of language acquisition implies rejection of the literalist view of language as an ideal static system with fixed meanings which are dependent upon fixed syntactic and semantic rules. We must now go beyond the level at which ...
Michael A. Arbib, Mary B. Hesse, 1986
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Ancient & Postmodern Christianity: Paleo-Orthodoxy in the ...
tional portrayals of John Chrysostom from that of a"rigid literalist" to a"mystical literalist" exegete of Scripture. As we will see, the Antiochene Father valued not only the literal meaning of a text (i.e., the recovery of an author's original intent within ...
Thomas C. Oden, Kenneth Tanner, Christopher A. Hall, 2002
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Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews
Here it should be remarked that literalist art too possesses an audience, though a somewhat special one: that the beholder is confronted by literalist work within a situation that he experiences as his means that there is an important sense in ...
Michael Fried, 1998
8
Economic Development and Islamic Finance
some Islamic market principles in modern markets.34 The debate reflects literalist reading of the codex of market rules instituted during the Messenger's time based on guidance from the Qur'an, as well as of the catechisms attributed to the ...
Zamir Iqbal, Abbas Mirakhor, 2013
9
Body Art/performing the Subject
... the beholder" and is thus theatrical (again, per Nietzsche, theater is the opposite of art),56 Acknowledging the viewer, the literalist work hreaks the primary rule ensuring the authority of modernist criticism, which, we recall, legitimates itself as ...
Amelia Jones, 1998
10
Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology
There is, in any case, a sharp contrast between the literalist espousal of objecthood — almost, it seems, as an art in its own right — and modernist painting's self-imposed imperative that it defeat or suspend its own objecthood through the ...
Gregory Battcock, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term literalist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tim Farron is a reminder of what it actually means to be liberal …
This belief isn't fundamentalist or literalist – it's Christianity. Anything that can truthfully be called Christianity is based on this belief. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
But what about… | Wizbang
http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice. You're not having any problem though thinking completely from the perspective of a literalist. jim_m. «Wizbang, Jul 15»
3
Teen dreams: Church influences career choice
This pattern does not extend to other science-oriented careers, such as medicine or engineering, where literalist-minded teens express ... «Indianapolis Recorder, Jul 15»
4
Growing Up Fundie: The Painful Impact of Conservative Religion
Yes, they still believe in literalist teachings of the Bible and vote Republican. But that didn't change how they treated my sister and me. I would ... «Gawker, Jul 15»
5
In BDS debate, both Jewish feelings and Palestinian lives matter
It usually takes a right-wing fundamentalist with a literalist interpretation of the Bible to explain why all the stuff Jesus said about “blessed are ... «+972 Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Sufi Shrines Under Attack by Hardline Groups
... al Nusra and Islamic State to erase Syrian cultural and historical heritage that doesn't mesh with their literalist interpretation of religion. «World Policy Institute, Jul 15»
7
It's Family Vacation. Everyone's Here and Having Fun. Except Her.
To abandon the literalist interpretation of the bible that causes so much harm. I may have to wait until they come into adulthood to explain all ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
8
Bachmann Terror Overdrive: The Age of Rapture
(You can see why Bachmann and her literalist ilk don't worry too much about climate change; why bother to save a planet that's going up in ... «Empire Burlesque, Jul 15»
9
'Scalia/Ginsburg' opera underscores how opposites can be in harmony
A constitutional literalist, he called the 5-4 decision "a judicial putsch" that "threatened American democracy." After this historic head-to-head, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
10
Greece debt crisis: If you think #thisisacoup you are an idiot
I'll allow a bit of poetic licence in political conversation about Greece, so I won't bother with the literalist argument that it's not a coup because ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»

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