Literally

Figuratively

Joan:I literally died

Jordan:Don't you mean figuratively

Joan:No, I mean literally

by SARCASIM!!! December 20, 2014

Literally

The previous definition was “in a literal sense” but Gen Z has morphed, changed, and exacerbated the use of this word so that it now means figuratively.

Gen Z-er: Dude I am literally dying right now
Gen X: Should I call an ambulance?? What’s wrong??? Are you okay????
Gen Z-er: Huh? No nothing is wrong but this meme I looked at made me kinda smile.

by TheAlwaysCorrect1 December 17, 2022

Literally

Physically happening in the real world; Opposite of figuratively. A word that white Girls FREQUENTLY misuse, while trying to exaggerate.

If you were chasing a goose, you could say, " This is literally a wild goose chase"

by jdthornton99 February 19, 2017

literally

adv. - In physical or concrete fact. In contrast to any abstract case, like metaphorically, colloquially, symbolically or figuratively.

Everybody has their Achilles' heel, their one vulnerable place. Achilles' Achille's heel was his.. heel. Like, literally.

--Louis CK, 2017

by yeah buddy 2020 March 5, 2021

literally

unless you say 'literally' people generally won't get what you are saying.

Dang! That tastes like crap, but not literally of course.

by Orange Hat July 9, 2005

literally

Means to exaggerate. Anyone who says it's "a much misused adverb, often for emphasis" is literally a piece of faecal matter so big it encompasses the whole observable universe, literally.

She was so repulsively ugly that I literally shat my own eyeballs, stitched them to my nipples and proceeded to lactate blood through my pupils.

by TheGravyOne October 7, 2008

literally

used to emphasize the seemingly unbelievable.

"the service at koi was horrible. it was like literally being in mcdonalds"

by jewda April 18, 2006