Figuratively. People who say it almost always mean figuratively.
Literally everyone who uses "literally" means "figuratively."
The most overused term in American English.
Whenever an idiot has no idea, what he is actually talking about, he replaces the last words that would have made any sence by the word "literally"
Person: " No, Kangaroos do not inhabit Austria."
Idiot: " Omliterallyg yes. They literally do it I literally read it on 4chan thread about New Zealand and literally Austria."
Something a Jackass would say when they are trying say “seriously” or make a Point without Context.
Poser 1: Did you hear about the New Call of Duty?
Poser 2: Bro, Literally all of the Call Of Duty Games are Stupid.
Poser 1: Hey did you see that girl on TikTok Bro?
Poser 2: Yeah it was so funny!
Poser 3: Literally Nobody Asked.
A word that you will learn when you are 7 years old. When you hear it, you will think that it’s a super-high intelligence word and use it in every sentence from then on out. People still do that as adults, which is always mind-numbing unless Chris Traeger says it. Then it’s okay.
“I have literally never eaten a dorito before.”
“Go fuck yourself.”
a word used by people who are lacking the ability to express how important the thing that they are talking about to other person; people who don't have the ability to use effective hand gestures and face expressions to tell how important something is. *p.s. the person is you lol get wrecked
homie #1: *had a stroke before, cant do serious face* bro, i forgot to tell you, but i took your cat for the annual national auction day
homie #2: bruv my girl just took her to the vet
homie #1: "literally." *said with a normal face
homie #2: nah dude i aint playin ur jokes u do be lookin sus
also homie #2: BRO YOU MOTHERFU-
*adds emphasis*
It's operates in a similar vein to the peppering of four letter words throughout a conversation, merely placing emphasis upon the encapsulating phrase, or the sentence as a whole.
It's like *look here, pay attention to me while I say this, though it is probably insubstantial and you might not want to regard it as wholly accurate if it is substantial.*
The earlier posts literally made such a big deal about the word being misused.
I literally had to correct that shit.
People are taking the definition of literally far too literally; I mean LITERALLY.
This is urban dictionary, it's literally made for incorrect colloquial usage cases. (this one happens to be both at once, which is likely why children first learn a mistaken use case)
When I got my hands on my private.
QuicklyWashing up Literally!