Alone
Alone adverb - Without aid or support.
Literally
Literally adverb - (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration.
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Synonyms for Literally
Alone and literally are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alone" instead an adverb "Literally".
Nearby Words: literal, literalism
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- She may be slightly more well-adjusted now, but nobody seem to raise eyebrows on a teenage girl literally living alone.
Source: Social Services Does Not Exist -
Both played straight and subverted in How to Train Your Dragon, where Hiccup first eats his food alone in the great hall, then ends up literally mobbed when he starts doing very well at dragon training.
Source: Eating Lunch Alone -
She is literally in Hell, seriously wounded, short an arm, staring down an artillery-sized death ray, all alone... and she is happy.
Source: Dying Alone
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