literal-minded

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Adjective

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literal-minded (comparative more literal-minded, superlative most literal-minded)

  1. Tending to take things literally, without understanding subtext, etc.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 231:
      When spiritual knowledge is lost, then literal-minded fools go around slaying relatives or cutting out hearts and lifting them up to the sun.
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