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facty

facty adjective: consisting principally of facts.

Adjective

facty

  1. (dated, informal) Consisting principally of facts
    • A 'facty' article on 'The Political Condition of Spain'.1883 November 2, Pall Mall Gazette, page 5 i, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition, volume 4, published 1901, page 15
    • The attribution is probably wrong, said Thomas, but the tradition of his being a painter was interesting if we considered the specially artistic character of the 3rd gospel, as against the purely facty nature of the other two synoptics, or the mystical nature of the 4th.1931, C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, volume 2, page 9
    Synonyms:
    factful

Synonyms of facty

Origin of facty

From fact + -y. Doublet of factic.

Words formed from facty

Questions about facty

What does facty mean?
Facty means consisting principally of facts.
What part of speech is facty?
Facty is an adjective.

Words near facty in the dictionary

  1. factums
  2. facturd
  3. facturds
  4. facture
  5. factures
  6. facty
  7. facula
  8. faculae
  9. facular
  10. faculous
  11. facultative

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