matter of fact as a noun: - 1
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matter of fact
noun
1 matter of fact
A disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide.
synonym: question of fact.
Roget 151:
eventuality,
event,
occurrence,
incident,
affair,
matter,
thing,
episode,
happening,
proceeding,
contingency,
juncture,
experience,
fact;
matter of fact;
naked fact,
bare facts,
just the facts;
phenomenon;
advent.
business,
concern,
transaction,
dealing,
proceeding;
circumstance,
particular,
casualty,
accident,
adventure,
passage,
crisis,
pass,
emergency,
contingency,
consequence;
opportunity
(occasion)
143.
the world,
life,
things,
doings,
affairs in general;
things in general,
affairs in general;
the times,
state of affairs,
order of the day;
course of things,
tide of things,
stream of things,
current of things,
run of things,
march of things,
course of events;
ups and downs of life,
vicissitudes of life;
chapter of accidents
etc.
(chance)
156;
situation
etc.
(circumstances)
8.
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Roget 843:
dullness,
heaviness,
flatness;
infestivity†
etc.
837,
stupidity
etc.
499;
want of originality;
dearth of ideas.
prose,
matter of fact;
heavy book,
conte a dormir debout [Fr.];
platitude.
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Roget 474:
certainty;
necessity
etc.
601;
certitude,
surety,
assurance;
dead certainty,
moral certainty;
infallibleness
etc.
adj.;
infallibility,
reliability;
indubitableness,
inevitableness,
unquestionableness†.
gospel,
scripture,
church,
pope,
court of final appeal;
res judicata [Lat.],
ultimatum positiveness;
dogmatism,
dogmatist,
dogmatizer;
doctrinaire,
bigot,
opinionist†,
Sir Oracle;
ipse dixit [Lat.].
fact;
positive fact,
matter of fact;
fait accompli [Fr.].
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Roget 1:
existence,
being,
entity,
ens [Lat.],
esse [Lat.],
subsistence.
reality,
actuality;
positiveness
etc.
adj.;
fact,
matter of fact,
sober reality;
truth
etc.
494;
actual existence.
presence
etc.
(existence in space)
186;
coexistence
etc.
120.
stubborn fact,
hard fact;
not a dream
etc.
515;
no joke.
center of life,
essence,
inmost nature,
inner reality,
vital principle.
[Science of existence],
ontology.
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2 matter of fact
A matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact.
adjective
Roget 843:
dull,
dull as ditch water;
unentertaining,
uninteresting,
flat,
dry as dust;
unfunny,
unlively†,
logy [U.S.];
unimaginative;
insulse†;
dry as dust;
prosy,
prosing,
prosaic;
matter of fact,
commonplace,
pedestrian,
pointless;
weary stale flat and unprofitable"
[Hamlet].
stupid,
slow,
flat,
insipid,
vapid,
humdrum,
monotonous;
melancholic
etc.
837;
stolid
etc.
499;
plodding.
boring,
tiresome,
tedious
etc.
841.
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Roget 703:
artless,
natural,
pure,
native,
confiding,
simple,
lain,
inartificial†,
untutored,
unsophisticated,
ingenu†,
unaffected,
naive;
sincere,
frank;
open,
open as day;
candid,
ingenuous,
guileless;
unsuspicious,
honest
etc.
939;
innocent
etc.
946;
Arcadian†;
undesigning,
straightforward,
unreserved,
aboveboard;
simple-minded,
single-minded;
frank-hearted,
open-hearted,
single-hearted,
simple-hearted.
free-spoken,
plain-spoken,
outspoken;
blunt,
downright,
direct,
matter of fact,
unpoetical†;
unflattering.
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Moby thesaurus: absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, admitted fact, adventure, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, brutal fact, circumstance, cold fact, conceded fact, datum, demonstrable fact, empirical fact, episode, established fact, event, experience, fact, fact of experience, given fact, hap, happening, happenstance, hard fact, incident, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, matter-of-factness, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, occasion, occurrence, particular, phenomenon, plain, plainness, positive fact, postulate, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, provable fact, reality, salient fact, self-evident fact, significant fact, simple fact, sober fact, stubborn fact, the case, the nitty-gritty, turn of events, undeniable fact, unimaginativeness, well-known fact ... show more.
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