literal

Adjective

• avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
  • it's the literal truth
    

• limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
  • a literal translation
    

• without interpretation or embellishment
  • a literal depiction of the scene before him
    

• being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
  • her actual motive
    
  • a literal solitude like a desert- G.K.Chesterton
    
  • a genuine dilemma
    

Noun

• a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  actual , genuine , real , misprint , erratum , typographical error , typo , literal error
• Antonyms: 
  figurative , nonliteral