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The definition of factual is true or concerned with actual details or information rather than ideas or feelings about it.

(adjective)

A claim that it was 20 degrees yesterday is an example of something that is factual as long as it is true.
Statistics on weather over the past five years is an example of factual information.

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See factual in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of or containing facts
having the nature of fact; real; actual

Origin: fact + (act)ual

Related Forms:

factuality noun
factually adverb

See factual in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of the nature of fact; real.
Of or containing facts.

Related Forms:

facˌtu·alˈi·ty (-ălˈĭ-tē) noun

facˈtu·al·ly adverb

facˈtu·al·ness noun

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