Meaning of MATTER OF FACT
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- [n] a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact
- [n] a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide
- [adj] concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
- [adj] not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
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| | Synonyms: | | practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, question of fact, unrhetorical |
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| | See Also: | | fact, head, question | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mat"ter-of-fact"\, a.
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities;
not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, admitted fact, adventure, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, boring, brutal fact, circumstance, cold fact, colorless, conceded fact, datum, demonstrable fact, direct, dry, dull, empirical fact, episode, established fact, event, experience, fact, fact of experience, factual, featureless, flat, forthright, given fact, hap, happening, happenstance, hard fact, incident, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, lifeless, matter-of-factness, mundane, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, occasion, occurrence, particular, phenomenon, plain, plainness, positive fact, postulate, prosaic, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, provable fact, reality, salient fact, self-evident fact, significant fact, simple fact, sober, sober fact, straightforward, stubborn fact, the case, the nitty-gritty, tiresome, turn of events, unadorned, unartistic, undeniable fact, unembellished, unimaginative, unimaginativeness, unpoetic, unvarnished, well-known fact |
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