fact

Speech parts

1. fact - Noun

2. fact - Interjection

3. Fact - Proper noun

Meaning

A doing, making, or preparing.

An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

event reality incident occurrence certainty circumstance actuality truth point information evidence data episode proof detail
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Antonyms

fiction opinion greek journal phantom chronicle
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Hypernyms

information concept reality construct conception realism

Hyponyms

case point book general particular record

Phrases with the word

as a matter of fact in fact in point of fact after the fact before the fact in actual fact

Anagrams

acft

Examples

first you must collect all the facts of the case Source: Internet

scientific hypotheses are not facts Source: Internet

he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts Source: Internet

your fears have no basis in fact Source: Internet

how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell Source: Internet

“2019 has been another exceptionally warm year, in fact the second warmest globally in our dataset, with many of the individual months breaking records,” said Carlo Buontempo, head of C3S. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

facsimile machine facsimilist facsimilize fact check fact checker fact checking