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Meaning of factive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
    not-comparable
  2. Making; creative.
    not-comparable, obsolete
  3. Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

Deutsch faktiv

Examples

“Under this account, verbs like⟳ forget⟳ and remember⟳ are classified as factive (1) and verbs like⟳ think⟳ and believe⟳ as nonfactive (2).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

factless factographic factoidal factorable factoradic factored

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