factual
Americanadjective
-
of or relating to facts; concerning facts.
factual accuracy.
-
based on or restricted to facts.
a factual report.
adjective
-
of, relating to, or characterized by facts
-
of the nature of fact; real; actual
Other Word Forms
- factualism noun
- factualist noun
- factualistic adjective
- factuality noun
- factually adverb
- factualness noun
- nonfactual adjective
- nonfactually adverb
- unfactual adjective
- unfactually adverb
Etymology
Origin of factual
First recorded in 1825–35; fact + -ual, after actual or effectual
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“The president’s reasoning and factual conclusions are not unique to Mr. Gentile and should bear equally on Mr. Schneider’s sentence of incarceration.”
Ben Hania’s last film was another bold meshing of the factual and the fictionalized, the hybridized Oscar-nominated documentary “Four Daughters,” in which a real Tunisian family processes personal tragedy through role-playing for the director’s camera.
From Los Angeles Times
The “real, factual data” that underpinned Leavitt’s statement was specious at best.
From Salon
In plain, factual language, Ernaux describes the events in unflinching detail in her book, Happening.
From BBC
One MDL abuse has been the ability of trial lawyers to gather huge plaintiff groups without first having to establish a factual basis for the individual claims.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
