Meaning of factual | Babel Free
ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əlDefinitions
- Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
- present, current
- True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
- actual, real
- present-day
- of the current month, year, etc.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“If, as Marx claimed, these factual views were held by the ideologists of the nineteenth century and if these factual claims could be proven false, then Marx could claim to have refuted certain tenets of capitalist political philosophy on a purely […]”
“Thus, the approach has more flexibility than Lamarque and Olsen's approach; in particular, it is open to the possibility that false factual claims do affect our understanding of, and our evaluation of, fictional narratives.”
“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.”
“He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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