'Fact' definitions:
Definition of 'fact'
From: WordNet
noun
A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"
noun
A statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"
noun
An event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
noun
A concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
Definition of 'Fact'
From: GCIDE
- Fact \Fact\ (f[a^]kt), n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat, Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.]
- 1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. [1913 Webster]
- What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- He who most excels in fact of arms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- I do not grant the fact. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
- This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. --Roger Long. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law. --Burrill --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Accessary before the fact, or Accessary after the fact. See under Accessary.
- Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.
- Syn: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fact'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute fact,
- accepted fact,
- accomplishment,
- act,
- actual fact,
- actuality,
- actually,
- admitted fact,
- adventure,
- article,
- aspect,
- authenticity,
- axiom,
- bald fact,
- bare fact,
- basis for belief,
- body of evidence,
- brutal fact,
- case,
- certainty,
- chain of evidence,
- circumstance,
- clue,
- cold fact,
- conceded fact,
- count,
- data,
- datum,
- deed,
- demonstrable fact,
- detail,
- details,
- documentation,
- element,
- empirical fact,
- episode,
- established fact,
- eternal verities,
- event,
- evidence,
- exhibit,
- experience,
- facet,
- fact of experience,
- factor,
- factors,
- facts,
- factually,
- fait accompli,
- genuineness,
- given fact,
- good sooth,
- grounds,
- grounds for belief,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hard fact,
- historical truth,
- historicity,
- in fact,
- in reality,
- in truth,
- incident,
- incidental,
- indeed,
- indication,
- indisputable fact,
- inescapable fact,
- information,
- instance,
- item,
- item of evidence,
- items,
- low-down,
- manifestation,
- mark,
- material grounds,
- matter,
- matter of fact,
- minor detail,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- muniments,
- mute witness,
- naked fact,
- not guesswork,
- not opinion,
- observable,
- occasion,
- occurrence,
- particular,
- particulars,
- phenomenon,
- piece of evidence,
- plain,
- point,
- points,
- positive fact,
- postulate,
- premises,
- proof,
- provable fact,
- reality,
- really,
- reason to believe,
- regard,
- relevant fact,
- respect,
- salient fact,
- self-evident fact,
- sign,
- significant fact,
- simple fact,
- sober fact,
- sooth,
- stubborn fact,
- symptom,
- the case,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the score,
- the true,
- thing,
- to be sure,
- token,
- trueness,
- truly,
- truth,
- truthfully,
- truthfulness,
- turn of events,
- ultimate truth,
- undeniable fact,
- unerroneousness,
- unfallaciousness,
- unfalseness,
- veracity,
- verity,
- very truth,
- well-known fact
Words containing 'Fact'
- facts,
- in fact,
- Accessary after the fact,
- Accessary before the fact,
- Fixed fact,
- Matter of fact,
- Presumption of fact,
- accessory after the fact,
- accessory before the fact,
- accessory during the fact,
- accomplished fact,
- as a matter of fact,
- book of facts,
- contrary to fact,
- fact finding,
- fact mood,
- facts of life,
- finding of fact,
- fraud in fact,
- in point of fact,
- question of fact,
- scientific fact,
- Matter-of-fact,
- fact-finding,
- matter-of-fact prosaic