Literal can mean:

• Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense
• Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text
• Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars
• any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, a string literal
• a chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression
• an adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism
• an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions

• Literalist The practice of being a literal person