Factual meaning

făk'cho͝o-əl
Of or containing facts.
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Of or containing facts.
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The definition of factual is true or concerned with actual details or information rather than ideas or feelings about it.

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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Having the nature of fact; real; actual.
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Of or characterised by or consisting of facts.
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Of the nature of fact; real.
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Origin of factual

From fact and -al (improperly formed, after analogy of actual).

Sentence Examples

  • His factual response chilled her.

  • Think of how the computer in the Star Trek universe was a purely factual machine.

  • The Fourth Gospel is the noblest instance of this kind of literature, of which the truth depends not on the factual accuracy of the symbolizing appearances but on the truth of the ideas and experiences thus symbolized.

  • Sociology conceives itself as a natural science elucidating a factual sequence.

  • Now from Philo to Origen we have a long Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian application of that all-embracing allegorism, where one thing stands for another and where no factual details resist resolution into a symbol of religious ideas and forces.

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