literal-minded
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of literal-minded
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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"Sensitivity to language is important and necessary, but we've become too literal-minded".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024
But ultimately you will have to defer to the parent, even if you think they are being overprotective or too literal-minded.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
Well, how else might a literal-minded agent bring about world peace?
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022
"Started out as a good idea - Let's be nice to people' - and finished up as a humorless, censorious, literal-minded, posturing idiocy," he wrote.
From Fox News • Apr. 15, 2021
And that literal-minded self, your subconscious, saw him after he died.
From Dead Ringer by Del Rey, Lester
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