literal-minded

English

Adjective

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.