Factual
adj, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries. uncountable
"The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year."
- 1 Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
"This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially."
- 2 True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
"A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history."
- 1 existing in act or fact wordnet
- 2 of or relating to or characterized by facts wordnet
Example
More examples"His remark was not intended to be a factual statement."
Etymology
From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual.
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