factual

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fac=tu=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

factual, a. 

•  of or pertaining to facts; as, factual inaccuracies.  [1913 Webster]
•  containing only facts (as contrasted with opinions or speculations); as, a factual report.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

factual, adj.
1 based on or concerned with fact or facts.
2 actual, true.

Derivative

factuality n. factually adv. factualness n.

Etymology

FACT, after actual

THESAURUS

factual

absolute, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no question, ascertained, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, based on, bona fide, categorically true, certain, certified, circumstantial, conclusive, confirmable, confirmed, convincing, correct, corroborated, cumulative, damning, de facto, decisive, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, documented, effectual, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, faithful, final, firsthand, for real, founded on, genuine, grounded on, hard, hearsay, historical, honest-to-God, implicit, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irresistible, legitimate, material, not in error, nuncupative, objective, objectively true, overwhelming, positive, precise, presumptive, probative, provable, proved, real, realistic, reliable, self-evident, significant, straightforward, substantial, substantiated, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, telling, testable, true, true as gospel, true to life, truthful, unanswerable, unbiased, unconfutable, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfallacious, unfalse, unimpeachable, unmistaken, unprejudiced, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verifiable, verified, veritable, weighty