OXFORD DICTIONARY

factual, adj.
1 based on or concerned with fact or facts.
2 actual, true.

Derivative

factuality n. factually adv. factualness n.

Etymology

FACT, after actual

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THESAURUS

factual

absolute, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no question, ascertained, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, based on, bona fide, categorically true, certain, certified, circumstantial, conclusive, confirmable, confirmed, convincing, correct, corroborated, cumulative, damning, de facto, decisive, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, documented, effectual, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, faithful, final, firsthand, for real, founded on, genuine, grounded on, hard, hearsay, historical, honest-to-God, implicit, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irresistible, legitimate, material, not in error, nuncupative, objective, objectively true, overwhelming, positive, precise, presumptive, probative, provable, proved, real, realistic, reliable, self-evident, significant, straightforward, substantial, substantiated, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, telling, testable, true, true as gospel, true to life, truthful, unanswerable, unbiased, unconfutable, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfallacious, unfalse, unimpeachable, unmistaken, unprejudiced, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verifiable, verified, veritable, weighty

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