Meanings
- adverbialActually, in fact.
Greedo: Going somewhere, Solo? / Han Solo: Yes, Greedo. As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba that I've got his money.
1977 May 25, 48:03 from the start, in Star Wars (Star Wars), episode IV (Science Fiction), Lucasfilm Ltd.2 more examples
The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space the eyes might rest on[…]."
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLCR. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it? B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do. R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6Synonyms: in reality, really, truthfully, truth to tell
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseActually, in fact.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin reality or actuality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic فِي الْحَقِيقَة
- فِي الْحَقِيقَة (fī l-ḥaqīqa)actually
Catalan de fet, en realitat
- de fetactually
- en realitatactually
Chinese Mandarin 事實上 /事实上, 其實 /其实
- 事實上 /事实上 (shìshíshàng)actually
- 其實 /其实 (qíshí)actually
- 實際上 /实际上 (shíjìshàng)actually
Danish faktisk
- faktiskactually
Dutch eigenlijk, in werkelijkheid
- eigenlijkactually
- in werkelijkheidactually
Esperanto fakte
- fakteactually
Finnish itse asiassa
- itse asiassaactually
French en fait, à vrai dire
- en faitactually
- à vrai direactually
- en véritéactually
- en réalitéactually
German tatsächlich, in Wirklichkeit
- tatsächlichactually
- in Wirklichkeitactually
- eigentlichactually
- genauer gesagtactually
- sogaractually
- in Wahrheitactually
Greek εδώ που τα λέμε, για την ακρίβεια
- εδώ που τα λέμε (edó pou ta léme)actually
- για την ακρίβεια (gia tin akríveia)actually
Hungarian valójában, ami azt illeti
- valójábanactually
- ami azt illetiactually
Icelandic reyndar, frómt frá sagt
- reyndaractually
- frómt frá sagtactually
- í raun og veruactually
Indonesian sebenarnya
- sebenarnyaactually
Irish déanta na fírinne
- déanta na fírinneactually
Italian difatti, in realtà
- difattiactually
- in realtàactually
Japanese 実は, 実際には
- 実は (jitsu-wa)actually
- 実際には (jissai-niwa)actually
Korean 사실은, 사실상
- 사실은 (sasireun)actually
- 사실상 (sasilsang)actually
Polish właściwie, w rzeczywistości
- właściwieactually
- w rzeczywistościactually
Portuguese na verdade, na realidade
- na verdadeactually
- na realidadeactually
Russian вообще́-то, на са́мом де́ле
- вообще́-то (voobščé-to)actually
- на са́мом де́ле (na sámom déle)actually
- в действи́тельности (v dejstvítelʹnosti)actually
Slovak pravdupovediac, vlastne
- pravdupovediacactually
- vlastneactually
Spanish por cierto, sin ir más lejos
- por ciertoactually
- sin ir más lejosactually
- de hechoactually
- a decir verdadactually
- en verdadactually
- como cuestión de hechoactually
- como una cuestión de hechoactually
Swedish faktum är att
- faktum är attactually
Ukrainian наспра́вді
- наспра́вді (nasprávdi)actually
Yiddish אייגנטלעך
- אייגנטלעך (eygntlekh)actually
Cite this entry
as a matter of fact. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20a%20matter%20of%20fact
“as a matter of fact.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20a%20matter%20of%20fact. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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