Word Meanings - FACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate

Additional info about word: FACT

1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton. 3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten. 4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts. I do not grant the fact. De Foe. This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. Roger Long. Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with low; as, attorney at low, and attorney in fact; issue in low, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between low and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the low. Burrill Bouvier. Accessary before, or after, the fact. See under Accessary. -- Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of- fact narration. Syn. -- Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FACT)

• Case
• Occurrence
• circumstance
• contingency
• event
• plight
• predicament
• fact
• subject
• condition
• instance
• Circumstance
• Detail
• feature
• point
• occurrence
• incident
• situation
• position
• topic
• particular
• specialty
• Event
• episode
• adventure
• issue
• accident
• result
• Indeed
• Truly
• verily
• certainly
• really
• in truth
• in fact
• Whereas
• Since
• seeing
• forasmuch as
• inasmuch as
• when in fact

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FACT)

• Generalize
• condense
• conglomerate
• gather
• sketch
• suggest abstract
• classify
• amalgamate
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to FACT)

• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• INSTANCE
  1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
• INDECENCY
  1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• VERILY
  In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly. Bacon. Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the verily thou shalt be fed. Ps. xxxvii. 3.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• INDEFATIGABLY
  Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• INDEBT
  To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.