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factual
English
Etymology
fact +? -al, modified by analogy with actual.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæk(t)?u?l/, /?fæk(t)??l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fak(t)???l/, /?fak(t)??l/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?f?k(t)???l/, /?f?k(t)??l/
Adjective
factual (comparative more factual, superlative most factual)
- Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.
- 2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 34:
- 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 […]
- 2014, Derek Matravers, Fiction and Narrative, OUP Oxford (?ISBN):
- 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.
- 2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 34:
- True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
- 2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, Bethany House Pub (?ISBN)
- 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)
Derived terms
Related terms
- fact
- counterfactual
- de facto
Translations
Further reading
- factual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- factual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- caul fat
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- fatual
Adjective
factual m or f (plural factuais, comparable)
- factual (consisting of facts)
Spanish
Adjective
factual (plural factuales)
- factual
- Synonym: fáctico
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accurate
English
Etymology
- First attested in the 1610s.
- (exactness): First attested in the 1650s.
- From Latin acc?r?tus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of acc?r? (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + c?r? (“take care”), from c?ra (“care”).
- See cure.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æk.j?.??t/, /?æk.j?.??t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æk.j?.??t/
Adjective
accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)
- Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
- Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Usage notes
- We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
- We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
- We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
- We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Synonyms
- correct
- exact
- just
- nice
- particular
Antonyms
- inaccurate
Derived terms
- accuracy
- accurately
Translations
Anagrams
- carucate
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
accurate
- Inflected form of accuraat
Interlingua
Adjective
accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)
- accurate
Related terms
- accuratia
Italian
Adjective
accurate f pl
- feminine plural of accurato
Anagrams
- cacature
Latin
Etymology
From acc?r?tus (“elaborate, exact”)
Adverb
acc?r?t? (comparative acc?r?tius, superlative acc?r?tissim?)
- carefully, precisely, exactly
Related terms
- acc?r?ti?
- acc?r?tus
- acc?r?
References
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accurate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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