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as a matter of fact

as a matter of fact prepositional phrase: actually, in fact.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (adverbial) Actually, in fact.
    • The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
    • Greedo: Going somewhere, Solo? / Han Solo: Yes, Greedo. As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba that I've got his money.1977 May 25, 48:03 from the start, in Star Wars (Star Wars), episode IV (Science Fiction), Lucasfilm Ltd.

as a matter of fact meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Arabic and Indonesian

as a matter of fact in Tamil

இயல்பான போக்கின்படி, உள்ளபடியாக

as a matter of fact in Malayalam

really, actually, in fact
യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ, സത്യത്തിൽ, തീർച്ചയായും, പരമാർത്ഥത്തിൽ, യദ്സത്യം, വാസ്തവികമായി

as a matter of fact in Arabic

actually
فِي الْحَقِيقَة fī l-ḥaqīqa

as a matter of fact in Indonesian

actually
sebenarnya

Synonyms of as a matter of fact

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Questions about as a matter of fact

What does as a matter of fact mean?
As a matter of fact means actually, in fact.
What is as a matter of fact in Tamil?
As a matter of fact in Tamil is இயல்பான போக்கின்படி, உள்ளபடியாக. See As a matter of fact meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is as a matter of fact?
As a matter of fact is a prepositional phrase.

Words near as a matter of fact in the dictionary

  1. arêtes
  2. as
  3. as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
  4. as a duck takes to water
  5. as a lamb to the slaughter
  6. as a matter of fact
  7. as a matter of factly
  8. as a matter of facts
  9. as a motherfucker
  10. as a mug
  11. as a result

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Adapted from Wiktionary: as a matter of fact (page history and authors); as a matter of fact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); as a matter of fact (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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