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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" [syn: actual, factual]
2: of or relating to or characterized by facts; "factual considerations"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: fact + -ual (as in actual) Date: circa 1834 1. of or relating to facts <a factual error> 2. restricted to or based on fact <a factual statement> • factuality noun • factually adverb • factualness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 based on or concerned with fact or facts. 2 actual, true. Derivatives: factuality n. factually adv. factualness n. Etymology: FACT, after actual

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Factual Fac"tu*al, a. Relating to, or containing, facts. [R.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is factual is concerned with facts or contains facts, rather than giving theories or personal interpretations. The editorial contained several factual errors... Any comparison that is not strictly factual runs the risk of being interpreted as subjective. ADJ • factually I learned that a number of statements in my talk were factually wrong. ADV: ADV adj/-ed, ADV after v

Moby Thesaurus

absolute, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no question, ascertained, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, based on, bona fide, categorically true, certain, certified, circumstantial, conclusive, confirmable, confirmed, convincing, correct, corroborated, cumulative, damning, de facto, decisive, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, documented, effectual, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, faithful, final, firsthand, for real, founded on, genuine, grounded on, hard, hearsay, historical, honest-to-God, implicit, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irresistible, legitimate, material, not in error, nuncupative, objective, objectively true, overwhelming, positive, precise, presumptive, probative, provable, proved, real, realistic, reliable, self-evident, significant, straightforward, substantial, substantiated, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, telling, testable, true, true as gospel, true to life, truthful, unanswerable, unbiased, unconfutable, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfallacious, unfalse, unimpeachable, unmistaken, unprejudiced, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verifiable, verified, veritable, weighty