Matter-of-fact \Mat"ter-of-fact"\, a.
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities;
not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
matter-of-fact
adj 1: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the
history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a
prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: prosaic]
2: concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or
pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact
account of the trip" [syn: pragmatic, pragmatical]
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "matter-of-fact":
boring, colorless, direct, dry, dull, factual, featureless, flat,
forthright, lifeless, mundane, prosaic, sober, straightforward,
tiresome, unadorned, unartistic, unembellished, unimaginative,
unpoetic, unvarnished
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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