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alt-fact

alt-fact is the alternative form of alternative fact.

Meaning of alternative fact

Noun

alternative fact (plural alternative facts)

  1. Something presented as a fact for reasons of political expediency; a fiction, a falsehood, a lie.
    • They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.2017 February 25, R. E. Guyson Mayers, “A GUY"S VIEW: Season of discontent”, in Barbados Advocate
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alternative, fact.
    • That Newton was an empirical scientist is a fact. An alternative fact is that he was an alchemist.

Forms of alt-fact

pluralalt-facts

Questions about alt-fact

What is alt-fact the alternative form of?
Alt-fact is the alternative form of alternative fact.

Words near alt-fact in the dictionary

  1. alt-country
  2. Alt-F4
  3. Alt-F4ed
  4. Alt-F4ing
  5. Alt-F4s
  6. alt-fact
  7. alt-facts
  8. alt-girl
  9. alt-girls
  10. alt-left
  11. alt-light

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alt-fact (page history and authors); alternative fact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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