factual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual.
Base: fact
Affixes: -ual
Inflected forms:
form: more factual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most factual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
pos: adj
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.
gloss: True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
pos: adj
examples: 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."
gloss: Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.
Related words: de facto
fact
facticity
factive
factiveness
factivity
facts
factuality
factualness
Derived words: antifactual
contrafactual
counterfactual
extra-factual
factualism
factualist
factuality
factualize
factually
factualness
factual relativism
multifactual
nonfactual
non-factual
postfactual
post-factual
prefactual
semifactual
unfactual
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: факти́чески
roman: faktíčeski
lang: Bulgarian
word: действи́телен
roman: dejstvítelen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 事實 /事实
roman: shìshí
lang: Czech
word: faktický
lang: Danish
word: faktuel
lang: Dutch
word: feitelijk
lang: Finnish
word: todellinen
lang: Finnish
word: tosiasioihin perustuva
lang: Finnish
word: tosiasiallinen
lang: Finnish
word: asiapitoinen
lang: French
word: effectif
lang: French
word: factuel
lang: Georgian
word: ფაქტიური
roman: pakṭiuri
lang: Georgian
word: ნამდვილი
roman: namdvili
lang: Georgian
word: ფაქტობრივი
roman: pakṭobrivi
lang: German
word: faktisch
lang: German
word: sachlich
lang: German
word: auf Tatsachen beruhend
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃
roman: sunjis
lang: Greek
word: πραγματικός
roman: pragmatikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πραγματικός
roman: pragmatikós
lang: Hindi
word: वास्तविक
roman: vāstavik
lang: Hungarian
word: tényszerű
lang: Indonesian
word: faktual
lang: Italian
word: effettivo
lang: Italian
word: fattuale
lang: Italian
word: concreto
lang: Italian
word: reale
lang: Japanese
word: 事実上の
roman: jijitsujō no
lang: Korean
word: 사실(事實)의
roman: sasir-ui
lang: Kyrgyz
word: фактыларга негизделген
roman: faktılarga negizdelgen
lang: Kyrgyz
word: чыныгы
roman: cınıgı
lang: Kyrgyz
word: актуалдуу
roman: aktualduu
lang: Occitan
word: factual
lang: Occitan
word: factuau
lang: Polish
word: faktyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: factual
lang: Portuguese
word: fatual
lang: Romanian
word: efectiv
lang: Romanian
word: faptic
lang: Russian
word: факти́ческий
roman: faktíčeskij
lang: Russian
word: действи́тельный
roman: dejstvítelʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: efectivo
lang: Spanish
word: fáctico
lang: Spanish
word: factual
lang: Swahili
word: ukweli
lang: Swedish
word: faktamässig
lang: Swedish
word: faktuell
lang: Turkish
word: somut
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַקטיש
roman: faktish