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unfactual

unfactual adjective: not factual.

Adjective

unfactual (not comparable)

  1. Not factual.
    • The Council awarded the annual Doublespeak award to the Republican National Committee. The winners each year are public officials who have "perpetuated language that is grossly unfactual, deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing or self-contradictory."1982 December 18, Fernando Chang Muy, quoting National Council of Teachers of English, “A Lesson on Gay Students At Teachers' Convention”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 3

Origin of unfactual

From un- + factual.

Questions about unfactual

What does unfactual mean?
Unfactual means not factual.
What part of speech is unfactual?
Unfactual is an adjective.

Words near unfactual in the dictionary

  1. unfactored
  2. unfactorisable
  3. unfactorizable
  4. unfactorized
  5. unfacts
  6. unfactual
  7. unfadable
  8. unfaddish
  9. unfaddy
  10. unfadeable
  11. unfaded

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