Matter-of-fact Definition

mătər-əv-făkt
adjective
Sticking strictly to facts; literal, unimaginative, unemotional, prosaic, etc.
Webster's New World
Straightforward or unemotional.
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Lacking emotion or colour.

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noun
A fact.
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(idiomatic) A more factual correction.
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(idiomatic) Something completely true.
As a matter of fact, the car is midnight blue.
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Noun

Singular:
matter-of-fact
Plural:
matters of fact

Origin of Matter-of-fact

  • Originated in the 19th century by natural philosophers of the Royal Society in London

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  • From matter + of + fact.

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Matter-of-fact Sentence Examples

  • Be relaxed, positive, and matter-of-fact about the whole process.

  • No single matter of fact necessarily implies the existence of any other.

  • The practical object of the enterprise required that the proportionate quantity of yearly output in the various branches, and that the liability of various topics as a matter of fact to occur in connexion with each other, should modify the classification.

  • The minister of finance stated in his budget speech to parliament, delivered on the 23rd of April 1910, that the revenues for the year 1909-1910, which had been estimated to produce T25,000,000, had as a matter of fact produced £T26,50o,000.

  • To this district Sir Henry Barkly asserted the British rights, but no steps were taken to enforce them and as a matter of fact the Bloemhof district continued to be part of the Transvaal.

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