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| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verifiable truth; reality |
| Synonyms: | actuality, appearance, authenticity, basis, bottom line*, brass tacks*, case, certainty, certitude, concrete happening, dope*, evidence, experience, genuineness, gospel, gospel truth*, how it is, intelligence, law, like it is, matter*, naked truth*, palpability, permanence, scene, scripture, solidity, stability, substantiality, verity, what's what |
| Antonyms: | fabrication, lie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, transaction, truism, datum, statistic |
| Antonyms: | lie |
| Main Entry: | facts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inside information |
| Synonyms: | bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, clue, cue, data, details, dope*, gospel, reality, scoop*, score*, story, info, inside dope, like it is, lowdown, numbers, poop, whole story |
| Antonyms: | lies |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | actuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, brass tacks*, fact, real world*, reality, substance, truth, actualization, materiality, materialization, straight stuff, substantiality, what it is |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
| Synonyms: | Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | criterion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | test, gauge for judgment |
| Synonyms: | archetype, basis, benchmark, canon, example, exemplar, fact, foundation, law, measure, model, norm, opinion, original, paradigm, pattern, precedent, principle, proof, prototype, rule, scale, standard, touchstone, yardstick, point of comparison |
| Antonyms: | change, conjecture, fancy, guess, possibility, probability |
| Main Entry: | evident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apparent, clear |
| Synonyms: | axiomatic, barefaced*, clear-cut, conspicuous, distinct, fact, incontrovertible, indisputable, logical, manifest, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut*, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, reasonable, straightforward, tangible, unambiguous, unmistakable, visible, crystal clear, incontestable, plain as day |
| Antonyms: | disputable, hidden, indefinite, obscure, secret, uncertain, unclear, unknown, unsure, vague, mistakable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | adventure, circumstance, episode, event, fact, happening, matter, milestone, occasion, scene, trip |
| Notes: | the primary meaning of incident is that of occurrence or event; the primary meaning of incidence is that of the rate or number of times at which something occurs |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detail |
| Synonyms: | ABC's, article, bottom line*, brass tacks*, case, chapter and verse*, circumstance, clue, cue, element, fact, facts of life, feature, gospel, item, know*, lowdown, nitty-gritty*, nuts and bolts*, picture, point, rundown*, scoop*, score*, speciality, specific, specification, story, thing*, what's what, whole story |
| Antonyms: | generality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | what's what |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way things are |
| Synonyms: | fact, truth of the matter, where it's at, whole story |
| Main Entry: | deed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, adventure, ballgame, big idea, bit, byplay, cause, commission, crusade, do, enterprise, exploit, fact, feat, follow through, game, happenin', performance, plan, quest, reality, securing, stunt, thing*, tour de force, truth, winning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feature, specific aspect |
| Synonyms: | accessory, article, brass tacks*, chapter and verse*, component, count, cue, design, dope*, element, fact, factor, fraction, item, meat and potatoes*, nicety, nitty-gritty*, nuts and bolts*, part, particular, peculiarity, plan, point, portion, respect, schedule, specialty, specification, structure, technicality, thing, trait, trivia, ABCs, circumstantiality, fine point, minor point, minutia, singularity, triviality |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder, conjuncture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | object |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thing able to be seen/felt/perceived |
| Synonyms: | article, body, bulk, commodity, doodad*, doohickey*, entity, fact, gadget, gizmo*, item, mass, matter, phenomenon, reality, something, substance, thingamajig*, volume, widget*, whatchamacallit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word, corporeality, existent, materiality |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactness, fact, facts, gospel*, gospel truth*, infallibility, inside track*, maxim, naked truth*, nitty-gritty*, perfection, picture, precision, principle, rectitude, scoop, score, truism, truthfulness, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, authenticity, exactitude, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, honest truth, legitimacy, plain talk, rightness, trueness, unvarnished truth, whole story |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, invention, untruth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | case |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | circumstance, conditions |
| Synonyms: | context, contingency, crisis, dilemma, event, eventuality, fact, incident, occurrence, plight, position, predicament, problem, quandary, situation, state, status |
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impact, impression |
| Synonyms: | action, clout, drift, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, enforcement, essence, execution, fact, force, import, imprint, influence, mark, meaning, power, purport, purpose, reality, sense, significance, strength, tenor, use, validity, vigor, weight, implementation |
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