literally

Word for word, exactly as stated.

He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.

There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.

Word for word, exactly as stated.

When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.

I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.

Word for word, exactly as stated.

My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.

What literally broke the ice that first night was when a 98-year-old retired professor spoke up. “Well, I have a choice of what to think about when I have insomnia at night. Being a lover of mathematics, last night when I couldn't sleep, I decided to calculate the tonnage of ice I delivered as a boy.”

As an intensifier.

I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.

I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.

As an intensifier.

He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.

On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.