factual
[fak-choo-uh l]
- of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- based on or restricted to facts: a factual report.
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Origin of factual
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Despite Their Loss In Florida’s Special Election, Democrats Shouldn’t Panic Over NovemberMichael Tomasky
March 12, 2014
Could you talk a little about the factual basis for your sexualizing of Lincoln?
Historical Examples
I told you, Brent, there was often a factual basis for fables—remember?
But his confutation was the factual confutation of experience.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols)Thomas De Quincey
They are in great part responsible for the factual matter in this book.
Space PlatformMurray Leinster
Possibility and not factual evidence support this hypothesis.
The Avifauna of Micronesia, Volume 3Rollin H. Baker
He'd simply answer the factual truth to the question that had been asked.
Perchance to DreamRichard Stockham
factual
- of, relating to, or characterized by facts
- of the nature of fact; real; actual
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Word Origin and History for factual
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