Meanings
- modalActually.
In point of fact, Whitmore wasn't just a slow cummer, but rather unable to have an orgasm whenever anyone else was present.
2013, David Bergman, The Violet Hour, page 1862 more examples
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLCBeing in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man.
1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 22, in The Hand of EthelbertaSynonyms: as a matter of fact, in fact
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseActually.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin reality or actuality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Icelandic satt að segja, í sannleika sagt
- satt að segjaactually
- í sannleika sagtactually
- í raun og veruactually
Spanish en rigor de verdad, a decir verdad
- en rigor de verdadactually
- a decir verdadactually
- en honor a la verdadactually
Cite this entry
in point of fact. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20point%20of%20fact
“in point of fact.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20point%20of%20fact. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in point of fact,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20point%20of%20fact.
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