Text: 1 restricted to or based on fact<a factual biography of George Washington that scoffs at the story about the cherry tree>Synonymsdocumentary, hard, historical, literal, matter-of-fact, nonfictional, objective, trueRelated Wordsactual, authentic, genuine, real; documented, established; reliable, verifiable; demonstrable, provable; incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable, undeniable, unquestionable; plain, simple, unexaggerated; certain, undoubtedNear Antonymshypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic); fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, legendary, mythical (or mythic); embroidered, exaggeratedAntonymsfictional, fictionalized, fictitious, nondocumentary, nonhistorical 2 existing in fact and not merely as a possibility<a serious scientist, she is only interested in factual phenomena and lets others speculate about the hypothetical>— see actual

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