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单词 facty
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factyadj.

Brit. /ˈfakti/, U.S. /ˈfækti/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fact n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < fact n. + -y suffix1.
1. That provides or contains many facts; highly factual.
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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’.
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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).
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