🇬🇧🇪🇸 factual - factual : English Lesson

Meaning of "factual" ("factual"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If something is factual, it is based on real facts and can be proven true, like what actually happened, not a guess, not pretend, and not a made-up story.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The science project had to be factual, so I changed the title from “How to Build a Time Machine Out of Cereal Boxes” to “Why Cereal Gets Soggy.”

It is factual that cats land on their feet, but not factual that they can help you with your math homework.

It’s factual that vegetables are good for you, but sadly not factual that broccoli will give you laser eyes.

It is factual that the Earth orbits the Sun, but not factual that it does a victory dance every time it completes a lap.

My sister said she’s secretly a unicorn, but the factual part is she just has a sparkly headband and lots of glitter.

At the market, a girl finds a jar with a faded, factual note inside. People whisper a wild story; she shows a factual photo, checks a factual stamp, reads a factual date. Each factual sign makes the crowd quiet. They smile, touched by the true small miracle, and the girl puts the jar back, safe and known.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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