Matter-of-fact Synonyms and Antonyms

mătər-əv-făkt
Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. prosaic
  2. objective
  3. practical
  4. pragmatic
  5. pragmatical
  6. direct
  7. dull
  8. down-to-earth
  9. sober
  10. unemotional
  11. realistic
  12. unimaginative
  13. unromantic
  14. literal
  15. hard
  16. hardheaded
  17. businesslike
  18. calm
  19. nonchalant
  20. cold
  21. dry
  22. commonplace
  23. plain
  24. frank
  25. plain-speaking
  26. impersonal
  27. straight-thinking
  28. straightforward
  29. feasible
  30. unexciting
  31. tough-minded
  32. unimpassioned
  33. unartistic
  34. unaffected
  35. literal minded
  36. pedestrian
Antonyms:
  1. imaginative
  2. emotional
  3. lively
With little or no emotion or expression
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dry
  2. impassive
  3. unemotional
A disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. question of fact

Words Related to Matter-of-fact

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. attitude
  2. real
  3. excite
  4. matter-of-course
  5. matter of necessity
  6. matter-of-interest
  7. self-deprecate
  8. laconic
  9. sententious
  10. self-effacing
  11. jocular
  12. brusque
  13. sardonic

Matter-of-fact Sentence Examples

  • Be relaxed, positive, and matter-of-fact about the whole process.

  • No single matter of fact necessarily implies the existence of any other.

  • The practical object of the enterprise required that the proportionate quantity of yearly output in the various branches, and that the liability of various topics as a matter of fact to occur in connexion with each other, should modify the classification.

  • The minister of finance stated in his budget speech to parliament, delivered on the 23rd of April 1910, that the revenues for the year 1909-1910, which had been estimated to produce T25,000,000, had as a matter of fact produced £T26,50o,000.

  • To this district Sir Henry Barkly asserted the British rights, but no steps were taken to enforce them and as a matter of fact the Bloemhof district continued to be part of the Transvaal.

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