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unfact

unfact noun: something not factual; a falsehood or factoid.

Noun

unfact (plural unfacts)

  1. Something not factual; a falsehood or factoid.
    • To say that Indian philosophy has led away from the study of Nature, is to state an unfact and to ignore the history of Indian civilisation.1937, G. A. Natesan, The Indian Review, volume 38, page 446
    • Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude, the evidencegivers by legpoll too untrustworthily irreperible where his adjugers are semmingly freak threes but his judicandees plainly minus twos.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 57

Forms of unfact

pluralunfacts

Origin of unfact

From un- + fact.

Questions about unfact

What does unfact mean?
Unfact means something not factual; a falsehood or factoid.
What part of speech is unfact?
Unfact is a noun.
What is the plural of unfact?
The plural of unfact is unfacts.

Words near unfact in the dictionary

  1. unfacetious
  2. unfacetiously
  3. unfacile
  4. unfacilitated
  5. unfacing
  6. unfact
  7. unfactchecked
  8. unfactional
  9. unfactionalized
  10. unfactious
  11. unfactitious

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