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in point of fact

in point of fact prepositional phrase: actually.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (modal) Actually.
    • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC
    • Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man.1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 22, in The Hand of Ethelberta

in point of fact meaning in Malayalam

in point of fact in Malayalam

actually, in fact, as a matter of fact
സത്യത്തിൽ, തീർച്ചയായും, യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ, അതെപോലും, പരമാർത്ഥം പറഞ്ഞാൽ, വാസ്തവത്തിൽ

Synonyms of in point of fact

Questions about in point of fact

What does in point of fact mean?
In point of fact means actually.
What is in point of fact in Malayalam?
In point of fact in Malayalam is സത്യത്തിൽ, തീർച്ചയായും, യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ. See In point of fact meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in point of fact?
In point of fact is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in point of fact in the dictionary

  1. in play
  2. in plenty
  3. in pocket
  4. in point
  5. in point of
  6. in point of fact
  7. in poor taste
  8. in posse
  9. in potentia
  10. in potentiâ
  11. in power

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in point of fact (page history and authors); in point 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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