Factual

/ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/ · adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
3. (broadcasting) Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.

Example Sentences

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.

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."

The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.

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