Factual
/ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjPertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
adjTrue, accurate, corresponding to reality.
Sentence Examples
His remark was not intended to be a factual statement.
Don't make factual statements without a source.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The report presented only ____ information without any personal opinions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The news report was praised for being ____ and avoiding any sensational or biased language.
Word Origin & History
From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151:
"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 […]"
— 2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 34:
"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."
— 2014, Derek Matravers, Fiction and Narrative, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
"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."
— 1957 December 26, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892:
"He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it.""
— 2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, Bethany House Pub, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The report presented only ____ information without any personal opinions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The news report was praised for being ____ and avoiding any sensational or biased language.