contrary to fact

1. 1.

   going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)

   Synonymscounterfactual

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Questions about contrary to fact

What does contrary to fact mean?

contrary to fact means "going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)".

What is another word for contrary to fact?

Close synonyms include counterfactual. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contrary to fact a common word?

contrary to fact is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.