And also let us not forget that dictionaries are not authoritative sources for word definitions of living languages, they are historical records. Words mean whatever their users intend. My favourite recent example of this is &#x27;literally&#x27; which once meant &quot;actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy&quot; and has now come to also mean it&#x27;s direct opposite: &quot;in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually&quot;.<p>Ironic.