different between factual vs faithful

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)

1. 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.

2. 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."

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)

1. factual (consisting of facts)

Spanish

Adjective

factual (plural factuales)

1. factual

   Synonym: fáctico

English

Alternative forms

• faithfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe??.f?l/

Adjective

faithful (comparative faithfuler or more faithful, superlative faithfulest or most faithful)

1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.

2. Having faith.
   • 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)

     The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.

3. Reliable; worthy of trust.

4. Consistent with reality.

5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
   • 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]

     She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful .

6. (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

Derived terms

• faithfully
• faithfulness

Translations

See also

• go to the wall for someone
• stand by
• true

Noun

faithful (plural faithfuls)

1. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.

2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.