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factual

[fak-choo-uhl]

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adjective

of or pertaining to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.

based on or restricted to facts: a factual report.

Origin:
1825–35; fact + -ual, after effectual or actual

Related forms

fac·tu·al·ly, adverb

fac·tu·al·i·ty, fac·tu·al·ness, noun

non·fac·tu·al, adjective

non·fac·tu·al·ly, adverb

un·fac·tu·al, adjective

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un·fac·tu·al·ly, adverb

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Factual is always a great word to know.

So is ort. Does it mean:

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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It makes sense, as long as you lay off the factual statements.

But journalists ignore the both of us and prattle on regardless, as if it were factual.

Yet its reporting looks dryly factual to western eyes.

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It makes sense, as long as you lay off the factual statements.

But journalists ignore the both of us and prattle on regardless, as if it were factual.

Yet its reporting looks dryly factual to western eyes.

Any such objects will be returned to groups than can demonstrate a cultural affiliation or factual claim to them.

Unfortunately, there are a number of factual errors in this essay which undermine its credibility.

Please note that there are some factual inconsistencies in the article.

The cards invariably display as a minimum some basic factual information about the sender.

One doesn't spend almost six years on a book, the point of which is factual accuracy, and then give way to minor distortions.

Frequently the perceived conflict between religion and science is understood as a debate about matters of factual observation.

Nor is he a journalist determined to bore down to factual bedrock.

The picture being painted in the above article is in no means factual.

Both are based on theory that cannot be proven and has no factual evidence to back up the theories.

To start with, there were some rather glaring factual errors.

Below you will find a list of factual corrections and some more general points about the article.

In addition, a few factual corrections to the article are in order.

Barthes wants to have it both ways: photographs as magical and mundane, fanciful and factual.

But writers of factual books often feel obliged to fill more pages than their ideas or their knowledge warrant.

Make sure students back up any statements with factual information from reliable resources.

Multiple choice questions test basic factual knowledge and simple reasoning skills more than conceptual understanding.

Rejecting religious text because of the ridiculousness of its literal meaning is as nescient as accepting it as factual.

All articles, columns, editorials and contributions in the newspaper are subject to the same requirements of factual accuracy.

There are serious factual problems with this article.

But it would also be interesting to know the answer to the narrow factual question.

The presumption that coral reefs are dying due to warming has not been determined as factual.

If you've mastered a subject, then writing about the factual content and ideas of it is easy, relatively.

IT is rare to find a reference work that is not only factual but readable.

The simple fact is there is no factual evidence that the universe was not designed by a higher intelligence.

These comprise factual errors, misleading statements and critical omissions.

We simply do not have the factual knowledge required to answer all of our questions.

Biography, once considered a direct and factual form, long ago gave way to interpretive psychobiography.

One factual perspective that needs to be inserted into this discussion is relative cost.

Those whose curiosity is stimulated will find plenty of factual material elsewhere.

Though it was not a factual charge, each was reread word-for-word.

The point is to present the case in a factual and educated manner.

The author makes no apologies for his hyperbole and claims that his book is unerringly factual.

Choosing to ignore them, not make them any less factual.

Also, recommendations often give me critical factual information about a candidate.

While this article has some interesting content, it's filled with factual errors and oversights.

So much factual information has been painstakingly disseminated across all communication lines in this country.

It does not cover the ideas or the factual information conveyed in the work.

The number of grammatical, logical and factual errors in your post push it way beyond critique.

There are a number of factual errors in this article eg.

The writer's first sentence contains a couple major factual errors.

Standardisation-of data sources, measures of factual reliability, and platforms for sharing information.

If you seek knowledge, there are mountains of books that contain the factual information you lack.

The reports should work towards presenting factual views that help change skeptical and rigid mindsets.

Clarification of basic factual information was not needed.

But then that's the problem with all factual books about intelligence.

Yet, you ignore the factual concreted scientific findings posted on this thread.

Almost everything you put in your blog is not factual.

His programs have been seen by audiences around the world and have received some of the highest ratings for factual programming.

They all seem to favour sensationalising the situation over factual reporting.

In this case, there is a factual history to refer to, namely the tapes of the original interview.

You're focusing on emphasis on teaching or scholarship, or other factual components of your application.

Canada's government website for the falls is also a good source of factual information.

Ignorance is not knowing what is factual or speculative understanding.

We often view it in art galleries, detached from its factual base.

As much as you can, try to depend on the factual evidence that they provide to you.

However, fictional humor is slowly giving way to factual absurdities in popular culture, experts say.

He believes it allows clients to build novel factual theories to win cases.

There is no factual conflict between you and the author, only a conflict about what else should have been mentioned.

All information attributed to other officers has been related to your affiant, and believe to be factual and truthful.

But it's a fair bet that the spirits have more than once doubled over in paroxysms of giant glee at its factual founderings.

Often getting the factual evidence is difficult to obtain as the employer won't be offering.

Now, although both countries have to produce factual information when they request.

To imply otherwise is a factual error and a misleading statement in the article.

Yet, it has failed to back up these charges with factual allegations.

Write an excellent article that is factual and reasoned and you get an almost religous denial and damned as a heretic.

Denenberg's article is well written, but contains a common factual error.

There are a number of factual errors in this piece and in the comments.

In addition to missing all the above factual and scientific discussion, the article veers off into alternative treatments.

Therefore the introduction of extrinsic factual and expert evidence must be discouraged, except in exceptional cases".

The appellate court improperly replaced the trial court's factual findings with its own factual judgments.

There are so many factual errors in this opinion essay that it's not worth reading.

Yet the strength of people's conviction is often in inverse proportion to the amount of robust factual evidence they have.

They also want internet registrars to force users to provide factual registration information.

Your conclusion to that effect has no factual basis.

Verification and development of factual knowledges about the objective universe is a different, scientific undertaking.

It had a gargantuan bubble that camouflaged its factual weakening.

Yes, the article is general, but it is factual and not phrased toward misconceptions.

MySpace's user agreement requires registrants, among other things, to provide factual information about.

Some moments are so much a matter of atmosphere as to be almost impossible to transmit by factual summary.

None of her claims have been established as factual.

The idea that the bible is a factual account of the creation of the earth is not logical.

If your article was a factual report on spending and deficits that would be acceptable, but you are pushing an agenda.

There is almost no factual information in the article.

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World English Dictionary

factual (ˈfæktʃʊəl)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, or characterized by facts
2.	of the nature of fact; real; actual

'factualism

—n

'factualist

—n

factual'istic

—*adj*

'factually

—*adv*

'factualness

—n

factu'ality

—n

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Word Origin & History

factual

1834, from fact on model of actual. Related: Factually.

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