Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonfactive, contrafactive
adj
Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: epistemology, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Making; creative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A factive verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English fact Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English factive From fact + -ive.
From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
