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Definitions: Matter-of-fact |
Matter-of-factAdjective1. Not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay". 2. Concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Matter-of-fact Unvarnished truth, prosaic, unimaginative. Whyte Melville speaks of a "matter-of-fact swain." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Matter-of-factSynonyms: pragmatic (adj), pragmatical (adj), prosaic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Plainness | Adjective: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Matter-of-fact |
| English words defined with "matter-of-fact": pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, prosaically ♦ unimaginatively. (references) |
| "Matter-of-fact" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Matter-of-fact" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 140 | 26,789 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "matter-of-fact": matter-of-fact-ness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "matter-of-fact"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 实际 (Actual, Practically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asiallinen (businesslike, down-to-earth, matter-of fact, pertinent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prózai (literal, prosaic, prose), gyakorlatias (efficient, hard-headed, impractical, practical, realist, realistic, worldly wise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 即物的 (practical, realistic, utilitarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そくぶつてき (practical, realistic, utilitarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn soylleeaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atter-of-factmay сухой (arid, brut, dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, sec, sere), лишенный фантазии, прозаичный (matter of fact, prosaic, prosy). (various references) hecho cierto. (various references) saklig (factual, hardheaded, literal, matter of fact, objective, pertinent, substantial, technical, unbiased). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-f-m-o-r-t-t-t" | |
-4 letters: amaretto, artefact, teratoma, tractate. | |
-5 letters: attract, coffret, fermata, formate, marcato, taffeta, teacart. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 74 74 65 72 2D 6F 66 2D 66 61 63 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101101 01101111 01100110 00101101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a t t e r - o f - f a c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072 002D 006F 0066 002D 0066 0061 0063 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767868671841581721572676986 |
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