Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

literal-minded

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: lit-er-al--mind-ed
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to take things literally, without understanding subtext, etc.

Example Sentences

"When spiritual knowledge is lost, then literal-minded fools go around slaying relatives or cutting out hearts and lifting them up to the sun."

Inflected Forms

more literal-minded (comparative) most literal-minded (superlative)

Questions

What does literal-minded mean?: Tending to take things literally, without understanding subtext, etc.

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