Literally

adv.	1.	According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
	2.	With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. - Dryden.

Adv.	1.	literally - in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" Antonyms: figuratively - in a figurative sense; "figuratively speaking,..."
	2.	literally - (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war" Synonyms: virtually

absolutely, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, expressly, faithfully, in all respects, in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly, rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word