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literal-minded in British English (ˌlɪtərəlˈmaɪndɪd) adjectivetending to take words and statements in their literal sense a literal-minded interpretation literal-minded in American English (ˈlɪtərəlˌmaindɪd) adjectiveunimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact Examples of 'literal-minded' in a sentenceliteral-minded These people are literal-minded fools.To the literal-minded, this is fact.And it all comes from the pure innocence of the literal-minded man.Anticipating the future is equally fraught, as literal-minded followers of science-fiction prophesies will attest.Not for the faint-hearted or literal-minded, this is a complex and intelligent book.It's such a literal-minded and dubious view of what constitutes reality.Anything more ambitious was supposedly too great a stretch for poor, literal-minded audiences.Though sometimes rather literal-minded, his attempts to relate imaginary to real geographies are always stimulating.He offers this aura as an antidote to literal-minded approaches to belief, for and against. |