matter-of-factlyadv.
/ˌmat(ə)rəvˈfaktli/, U.S. /ˈˌmædərə(v)ˈˌfæktli/ In a matter-of-fact manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adverb]
matter-of-factly1873
unimaginatively1883
myopically1982
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb] > in a matter-of-fact manner
matter-of-factly1873
1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 47 ‘You mean us, I suppose’, I answered matter-of-factly.
1881 Temple Bar Mar. 347 ‘Come,’ he says matter-of-factly. ‘They will be waiting tea for us.’
1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. iii. 39 How tedious love becomes when it is taken as matter-of-factly as eating dinner.
1990 G. Das Fine Family i. iv. 47 She had matter-of-factly recounted how she had got the job of a school teacher in Lyallpur.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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