Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of the nature of fact; real.
- adj. Of or containing facts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the nature of fact; consisting of or attentive to facts; real; genuine; scrupulously exact.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or characterised by or consisting of facts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare of or pertaining to facts.
- adj. containing only facts (as contrasted with opinions or speculations).
WordNet 3.0
- adj. existing in act or fact
- adj. of or relating to or characterized by facts
Etymologies
- From fact and -al (improperly formed, after analogy of actual). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The students, who wrote the script for the video, according to its description on YouTube, also point out what they describe as a factual inaccuracy in Emanuel's portrayal of the city's charters.”
The Huffington Post: High Schoolers Attack Rahm On Education Policy
“She denigrated the piece as "uninformed speculation," and ridiculed what she characterized as the factual errors in the piece.”
“Furthermore, as Sommers hammers at a variety of what she calls factual errors, she conveniently sidesteps an important assumption undergirding her attacks on liberal feminist scholars, which is that they have an agenda and she doesn't.”
"And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
“This leads to a crucial distinction between what I call factual and practical realism.”
“One paper has what he calls factual inaccuracies and he damns all the anti EU papers with that one example.”
“I have an investigative phase, what I call a factual phase, once the investigation has resulted in information, and then a legal phase.”
“The university has demanded the DP withdraw the advertisement and correct what it called factual inaccuracies in it.”
“That's what you call factual evidence to back up an opinion.”
“I'm curious what the implied counter-factual is here.”
“Same with the next comments, calling the a fantasy when they are factual is simply a way of refuting the argument without addressing it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘factual’.
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A Rarefaction of Factoids
List of genuine words and phrases containing the string fact-, -fact-, or -fact. Beginning with ventifact and stupefaction.
ventifact, stupefaction, fact, factoid, rarefaction, unsatisfactory, satisfactory, tumefaction, surfactant, artifact, benefactor, benefaction and 142 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
replete, steeped, eminent, indiscriminate, voracious, automaton, prognosticate, technology, abound, matron, tinge, compound and 297 more...
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Ophelia
Words to describe John Everett Millais' Ophelia
biology, biosphere, community, habitat, biotic, vivacious, nature, natural, detail, ecology ecosystem, dense, elaborate and 33 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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General
attain, stretch, lever, flock, fraught, taunt, dub, deceive, toss, sentient, stale, brew and 52 more...
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permacouture's Words
pony, hobbledehoy, mogwai, freezer, gitanes, shower, glasses, boludo, tequila, tucson, chilaquiles, raleigh and 85 more...
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horrible words
words I hate
factual, guesstimate, taut, impact, utilize, lingerie, existential, quirky, wacky, milieu
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