单词 | facty |
释义 | factyadj. 1. That provides or contains many facts; highly factual. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > [adjective] informatory?a1475 copiousa1500 informing1581 intelligentiary1590 intelligencing1595 informative1646 intelligential1820 informational1821 instructional1832 telling1834 factful1842 facty1871 FYI1973 1871 Gentlemen's Mag. Dec. 29 One or two newspapers miss his useful and facty pen. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Nov. 5/1 A ‘facty’ article on ‘The Political Condition of Spain’. 1912 T. Kettle Open Secret of Ireland (end matter) The book is a sober, sensible and thoroughly 'facty' statement of an urgent case. 2006 Esquire May 62/1 I do like a facty book... I think I'm like most men of my age, class and education—facts are what we like. 2. That knows many facts, interested (only) in facts.Chiefly in or after the writings of H. G. Wells, with the implication ‘lacking in emotion or imagination’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility unfeelingc1000 mis-feelinga1382 stonishc1450 unpainfulc1450 obtuse1509 sprightlessa1522 insensate1553 senseless1560 soulless1568 dull-esprited1591 impassible1592 bluntie1598 impenetrable1600 stockish1600 stolidc1600 incapable1601 stupid1605 tasteless1605 unsensitive1610 unexalted1611 insensible1617 unsensible1619 languid1622 immovable1639 dead-hearted1642 sterile1642 resupine1643 unaffectionate1645 iron-bound1648 resentlessa1649 torpid1656 torpulent1657 impassive1699 unreceptive1722 hebete1743 apathetic1744 stubbed1744 gustless1766 unresponsive1768 unsusceptible1779 tideless-blooded1786 unaffectioned1788 inaccessible1796 hebetudinous1820 unimpressible1828 insensitive1834 apathetical1835 non-sensitive1836 blunt-hearted1845 irreceptive1846 unreceptant1846 unimpressionable1847 anaesthetic1860 insentient1860 hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862 unsqueamish1893 tone-deaf1894 unget-at-able1897 facty1901 zombie1937 pegamoid1957 1901 Westm. Gaz. 18 June 10/1 Mr. Page, most interesting because most real and ‘facty’ of Horace's editors. 1930 H. G. Wells Autocracy Mr. Parham ii. i. 80 He was facty and explicit after the manner of his type. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. viii. 540 To him [sc. G. B. Shaw]..I have always appeared heavily and sometimes formidably facty and close-set; to me his judgements, arrived at by feeling and expression, have always had a flimsiness. 1961 Wellsian Jan. This is usually investigated by facty economists and historians in heavily serious tomes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1871 |
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