matter-of-fact

1. 1.

   not fanciful or imaginative

   “local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones”

   “a prosaic and unimaginative essay”

   Synonymsprosaic

   Similarunrhetorical
2. 2.

   concerned with practical matters

   “a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem”

   “a matter-of-fact account of the trip”

   Synonymspragmaticpragmatical

   Similarpractical

Questions about matter-of-fact

What does matter-of-fact mean?

matter-of-fact means "not fanciful or imaginative". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in matter-of-fact?

matter-of-fact has 4 syllables: mat-te-r-of--fact. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for matter-of-fact?

Close synonyms include prosaic, pragmatic, pragmatical. 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 matter-of-fact a common word?

matter-of-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.