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factual

[ fak-choo-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to facts; concerning facts:

    factual accuracy.

  2. based on or restricted to facts:

    a factual report.



factual

/ ˈfæktʃʊəl /

adjective

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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfactualist, noun
  • ˈfactually, adverb
  • ˌfactualˈistic, adjective
  • ˈfactualism, noun
  • ˈfactualness, noun

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Other Words From

  • 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
  • un·factu·al·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of factual1

First recorded in 1825–35; fact + -ual, after actual or effectual

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Example Sentences

Fox News, to pick the most powerful of the organs cited by Eshoo and McNerney, has a long history of resisting pressure to produce factual news reports.

He pleaded guilty last year to one count of misconduct in office for making “intentional misrepresentations and factual omissions” in Webster’s application for certification.

Yes, science accumulates factual knowledge, but it is at its best when it generates new and better questions.

Our ancestors evolved in small groups, where cooperation and persuasion had at least as much to do with reproductive success as holding accurate factual beliefs about the world.

In ideologically charged situations, one’s prejudices end up affecting one’s factual beliefs.

To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

Highly educated people will disagree, and no amount of factual information will necessarily decide the issue.

I wonder who is putting up the ads and how factual they are?

We live in the world of Zero Dark Thirty; factual accuracy has supplanted fantasy technology.

But both of these statements are factual, and Republicans will spin them hard today and tomorrow.

I only wish to avoid vulgar exaggeration, to keep within the bounds of the factual.

Factual material, however disguised, often shines through its fictional background.

The last of the internal senses is that of factual memory, the power which retains the judgments made by the faculty preceding.

Logically, any factual proposition is a hypothetical proposition when it is made the basis of any inference.

The better element meets the better element, and he makes factual, intelligent reports.

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