matter-of-fact
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
not fanciful or imaginative
local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones
Related & opposite
- prosiness derivation
- prose derivation
- unrhetorical similar to
Sense 2 adjective
concerned with practical matters
a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | prosiness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | prose |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unrhetorical |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | realism |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | practical |