fact is

Adverb

Meaning

fact is (not comparable)

(idiomatic) actually, in truth

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

del facto

Examples

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. Jerome

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Edward Teller

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. J. L. Austin

Fact is stranger than fiction. Swedish Proverb

A single fact is worth a shipload of argument. American Proverb

A single fact is worth a shipload of argument. Albanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fact file fact free fact gained through firsthand observation fact it is not fact mood fact needs to be taken into account that