fact

The word “fact” has 1 syllable: fact

It's pronounced as /fækt/


What is synonym and antonym for fact?

In the thesaurus, “fact” has 88 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fact along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fact

  • accomplishment
  • act
  • action
  • actuality
  • adventure
  • affair
  • appearance
  • article
  • aspect
  • authenticity
  • basis
  • being
  • bottom line
  • brass tacks
  • case
  • certainty
  • certitude
  • circumstance
  • component
  • conception
  • concrete happening
  • consideration
  • constituent
  • construction
  • creation
  • data
  • database
  • datum
  • deed
  • detail
  • dope
  • element
  • entity
  • episode
  • event
  • evidence
  • exhibit
  • experience
  • facet
  • factor
  • factuality
  • fait accompli
  • feature
  • findings
  • genuineness
  • gospel
  • gospel truth
  • happening
  • how it is
  • incident
  • inevitability
  • information
  • ingredient
  • intelligence
  • item
  • knowledge
  • law
  • like it is
  • manifestation
  • materiality
  • matter
  • member
  • naked truth
  • nicety
  • occurrence
  • organism
  • palpability
  • part
  • particular
  • particularity
  • performance
  • permanence
  • phenomenon
  • point
  • proceeding
  • reality
  • scene
  • scripture
  • solidity
  • specific
  • stability
  • statistic
  • substantiality
  • thing
  • transaction
  • truism
  • truth
  • verity

Antonyms for fact

Meanings of fact

  • noun
    1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
    2. Something which is real.
    3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
    4. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
    5. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
    6. An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
    7. Action; the realm of action.
    8. A wrongful or criminal deed.
    9. A feat or meritorious deed.
  • interjection
    1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

Example Sentences

  • The scientist presented the undeniable fact that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level.
  • Despite his protests, the student couldn't dispute the historical fact presented in the textbook.
  • She appreciated the fact that honesty was crucial in any relationship.
  • The fact that it rained yesterday influenced today's outdoor plans.
  • The sky being blue is a fact everyone learns early in life.

On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fact, such as: abstract, accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

fancying

  • Atlantis
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • air castle
  • apparition
  • appearance
  • apperception
  • appreciating
  • appreciation
  • apprehension
  • authoring
  • being partial to
  • bubble
  • building
  • castle in the air
  • causation
  • cherishing
  • chimera
  • clue
  • cogitating
  • cognition
  • communing
  • composition
  • comprehension
  • conceit
  • conceiting
  • conceiving
  • concentrating
  • concept
  • conception
  • concocting
  • consideration
  • considering
  • constituting
  • construction
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • creativity
  • daydream
  • daydreaming
  • deliberating
  • delusion
  • design
  • designing
  • devising
  • devouring
  • digging
  • dream
  • dreaming
  • enjoying
  • envisaging
  • envisioning
  • explanation
  • exposition
  • externalizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • fairyland
  • fancy
  • fantasia
  • fantasizing
  • fantasying
  • fashioning
  • favoring
  • featuring
  • figment
  • figment of imagination
  • flight
  • flight of imagination
  • fond hope
  • foreseeing
  • forging
  • formulation
  • getting a charge out of
  • getting a kick out of
  • going for
  • hallucinating
  • hallucination
  • having a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • ideating
  • idolizing
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imaging
  • imagining
  • impression
  • in a zone
  • inkling
  • intellection
  • interpretation
  • inventing
  • invention
  • liking
  • loving
  • making up
  • manufacturing
  • meditating
  • meditation
  • mental grasp
  • mind trip
  • mirage
  • musing
  • nightmare
  • notion
  • objectifying
  • occasioning
  • originality
  • origination
  • perception
  • performing
  • phantasm
  • phantasy
  • philosophizing
  • picture
  • picturing
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • plan
  • planning
  • pondering
  • preferring
  • prefiguring
  • prizing
  • producing
  • production
  • projecting
  • rainbow
  • re-creating
  • realization
  • recreating
  • reflecting
  • relishing
  • reliving
  • reminiscing
  • representation
  • reverie
  • revering
  • ruminating
  • savoring
  • savouring
  • seeing
  • shaping
  • speculating
  • speculation
  • stargazing
  • taking to
  • thought
  • treasuring
  • trip
  • utopia
  • vagary
  • valuing
  • venerating
  • version
  • vision
  • visioning
  • visualizing
  • wish
  • woolgathering
  • worshiping
  • worshipping

balefulness

made up

  • abstract
  • accommodate
  • ad-lib
  • ad-libbed
  • assembled
  • atone
  • balance
  • began
  • blend
  • built
  • bury the hatchet
  • came up with
  • carpentered
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • coin
  • coined
  • combine
  • combined
  • come to terms
  • complemented
  • complete
  • completed
  • compose
  • composed
  • compound
  • comprised
  • conceived
  • conciliate
  • concoct
  • concocted
  • confected
  • consist
  • constituted
  • construct
  • constructed
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • cook up
  • counterbalance
  • counterpoise
  • countervail
  • created
  • daydreamed
  • daydreamlike
  • deceptive
  • delusional
  • delusive
  • designed
  • devise
  • devised
  • dream up
  • dreamed
  • dreamt
  • drummed up
  • embodied
  • envisaged
  • envisioned
  • epitomized
  • erected
  • established
  • excogitated
  • extemporized
  • fabled
  • fabricate
  • fabricated
  • fabulize
  • fabulous
  • fake it
  • false
  • fanciful
  • fantasied
  • fantasized
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • fashion
  • fashioned
  • fathered
  • feigned
  • fictional
  • fictionalize
  • fictitious
  • fictive
  • fill
  • fix
  • forged
  • forgive and forget
  • form
  • formed
  • formulate
  • founded
  • frame
  • framed
  • furnish
  • fuse
  • generated
  • hallucinatory
  • hammered
  • handcrafted
  • hatch
  • hatched
  • hypothetical
  • ideal
  • illusory
  • imaginal
  • imaginary
  • imagined
  • improv
  • improvise
  • improvised
  • inaugurated
  • incarnated
  • include
  • incorporated
  • inexistent
  • initiated
  • innovated
  • instituted
  • integrated
  • invent
  • invented
  • jerry-built
  • join
  • knock off
  • legendary
  • made
  • make
  • make amends
  • make believe
  • make peace
  • make-believe
  • manufactured
  • materialized
  • meet
  • meld
  • mend
  • merge
  • mingle
  • mix
  • molded
  • mythic
  • mythical
  • nonexistent
  • notional
  • offset
  • organized
  • originate
  • originated
  • outweigh
  • pacify
  • personified
  • phantasmagoric
  • phantasmagorical
  • phantasmal
  • phantasmic
  • phantom
  • pictured
  • pieced
  • play by ear
  • prefabricated
  • prepare
  • prepared
  • pretend
  • produced
  • provide
  • put together
  • put up
  • raised
  • ready
  • reared
  • reassembled
  • rebuilt
  • recompense
  • reconstructed
  • redeem
  • redeveloped
  • redress
  • reedified
  • requite
  • retrofit
  • retrofitted
  • romantic
  • set off
  • set up
  • settle
  • shake hands
  • shaped
  • specious
  • storify
  • substantiated
  • supplemented
  • supply
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • threw up
  • trump up
  • trumped up
  • trumped-up
  • unbelievable
  • unconvincing
  • united
  • unlikely
  • unreal
  • untrue
  • visionary
  • visioned
  • visualized
  • whip up
  • wing it
  • write

handler

  • abettor
  • actor
  • administrator
  • adviser
  • advisor
  • advocate
  • ambassador
  • assignee
  • assistant
  • attorney
  • autoist
  • automobilist
  • boss
  • breeder
  • broker
  • businessperson
  • cabbie
  • chauffeur
  • cicerone
  • coach
  • coach person
  • coachman
  • commissioner
  • comptroller
  • conductor
  • consigner
  • controller
  • counsellor
  • counselor
  • dealer
  • delegate
  • demonstrator
  • deputy
  • director
  • doer
  • drill sergeant
  • driller
  • drillmaster
  • emissary
  • envoy
  • exec
  • executive
  • executor
  • exporter
  • factor
  • factotum
  • functionary
  • go-between
  • governor
  • guide
  • hack
  • head
  • head person
  • instructor
  • intermediary
  • jobber
  • jockey
  • lawyer
  • leadfoot
  • lecturer
  • manager
  • marketer
  • mediary
  • mentor
  • middleperson
  • minister
  • motorist
  • mover
  • negotiator
  • officer
  • official
  • operative
  • operator
  • organizer
  • overseer
  • principal
  • proctor
  • producer
  • professor
  • promoter
  • proprietor
  • proxy
  • representative
  • retailer
  • road hog
  • salesperson
  • seller
  • sender
  • servant
  • shipper
  • shopkeeper
  • steward
  • storekeeper
  • straw boss
  • substitute
  • superintendent
  • supervisor
  • surrogate
  • teacher
  • ten percenter
  • trader
  • tradesperson
  • trafficker
  • trainer
  • tutor
  • tycoon
  • vendor
  • whip
  • wholesaler
  • worker
  • zookeeper

take effect

  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • act
  • affect
  • appear
  • arise
  • arrive
  • be found
  • become a fact
  • become known
  • become of
  • befall
  • begin
  • behave
  • betide
  • bump
  • carry on
  • carry out
  • chance
  • come about
  • come after
  • come into being
  • come into existence
  • come off
  • consummate
  • cook
  • count
  • crop up
  • develop
  • do
  • do a number
  • down
  • enforce
  • ensue
  • eventuate
  • execute
  • fall
  • follow
  • function
  • get in there
  • go about
  • go for broke
  • go for it
  • go in for
  • go on
  • go that route
  • go to town
  • have effect
  • have force
  • hit
  • influence
  • intrude
  • issue
  • knock off
  • labor
  • light
  • luck
  • make presence felt
  • make presence known
  • make progress
  • maneuver
  • materialize
  • meet
  • militate
  • move
  • officiate
  • operate
  • pan out
  • pass
  • percolate
  • perform
  • perk
  • perpetrate
  • persevere
  • persist
  • practice
  • present itself
  • preside
  • proceed
  • pursue
  • react
  • recur
  • redound
  • register
  • respond
  • result
  • serve
  • shake
  • smoke
  • spring
  • stumble
  • stumble upon
  • supervene
  • sway
  • take
  • take hold
  • take its toll
  • take part
  • take place
  • take steps
  • take up
  • transort
  • transpire
  • turn out
  • turn up
  • undertake
  • weigh
  • what goes
  • work
  • work out

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