Factual

[fac·tu·al]

If something is factual, it can be proven, like your mother's story about the bear that is factual because she took a picture of it standing next to the family car.

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Relating to, or containing, facts.

Adjective S.
characterized by fact; "the factual aspects of the case"

Adjective
existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not; "de facto segregation is as real as segration imposed by law"; "a de facto state of war"

Adjective S.
of the nature of fact; having actual existence; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"

Adjective S.
based on fact; "factual accuracy"; "a factual account"

Adjective
of or relating to or characterized by facts; "factual considerations"

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a.
Relating to, or containing, facts.


Factual

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

Factum

Fac"tum , n.; pl. Facta . [L. See Fact.] 1. (Law) A man's own act and deed; particularly: (a) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain. (b) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity. 2. (Mach.) The product. See Facient, 2.

Relating to, or containing, facts.

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Usage Examples

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

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