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in fact

/ɪnˈfækt/

in fact prepositional phrase: resulting from the actions of parties.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Resulting from the actions of parties.
  2. (modal) Actually; in truth; de facto.
    • People think he's rich, but in fact he's nearly penniless.
    • Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  3. Moreover.
    • I don't have the time or patience to deal with him. In fact, I barely even have time for being here at all.

in fact meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

in fact in Hindi

in fact
असल में asal mẽ

in fact in Tamil

உண்மையில் உள்ளபடி, உண்மையில் உள்ளபடியே, சொல்லப்போனால்

in fact in Urdu

actually, in truth
بلکہ balkih

in fact in Telugu

in fact, really
తథ్యముగా tathyamugā
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in fact in Malayalam
സത്യത്തിൽ, യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ, വാസ്തവത്തിൽ, പരമാർത്ഥത്തിൽ
in fact in Kannada
ವಾಸ್ತವವಾಗಿ, ನಿಜವಾಗಿ
in fact in Punjabi
سگوں sagoṉ, ਦਰਅਸਲ darasal, ਉਂਞ ūñj
in fact in Sanskrit
अर्थतस् arthatas
in fact in Tagalog
ang totoo, sa totoo lang
in fact in Arabic
فِي الْحَقِيقَة fī l-ḥaqīqa
in fact in Persian
در حقیقت, در واقع

Examples of in fact in a sentence

  • In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
  • Menggetimur (d. 1433),¹⁸ chief of the Odoli subtribe of the Chien-chou Jurchen, had in fact moved into Korea south of the Tumen River.1998, Donald N. Clark, “Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming”, in Denis Twitchett, Frederick W. Mote, editors, The Cambridge...
  • In fact, about two-thirds of this “abyssal” seabed is made up of gentle rolling hills a few hundred metres high, says Jennifer Durden at the University of Southampton, UK.2015 August 8, Bob Holmes, “Ocean hills yield secret ecosystems”, in New Scientist, number 3033, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015...

Synonyms of in fact

Origin of in fact

From fact (“deed, action”) (now obsolete, except in law). Perhaps ultimately a calque of French en fait.

Questions about in fact

What does in fact mean?
In fact means resulting from the actions of parties.
What is in fact in Hindi?
In fact in Hindi is असल में (asal mẽ). See In fact meaning in Hindi.
How do you use in fact in a sentence?
In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs.
What part of speech is in fact?
In fact is a prepositional phrase.
How do you pronounce in fact?
In fact is pronounced /ɪnˈfækt/.

Words near in fact in the dictionary

  1. in existence
  2. in extenso
  3. in extenuation of
  4. in extremis
  5. in face of
  6. in fact
  7. in fairness
  8. in faith
  9. in fashion
  10. in favor
  11. in favor of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in fact (page history and authors); असल में (Hindi) (page history and authors); in fact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); తథ్యముగా (Telugu) (page history and authors); in fact (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); in fact (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سگوں (Punjabi) (page history and authors); अर्थतस् (Sanskrit) (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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