| 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 |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
Synonyms: |
advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
Synonyms: |
absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
Antonyms: |
belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
| 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: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
particular, censorious, dainty, delicate, difficult to please, fastidious, finical, hard to please, hypercritical, jimp, lickerish, nice, pleasing, queasy, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, strait-laced, thin-skinned
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