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matter-of-fact

DEFINITIONS OF: matter-of-fact

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adj concerned with practical matters

“a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem”
“a matter-of-fact account of the trip”
Synonyms:
pragmatic, pragmatical
practical
concerned with actual use or practice

adj not fanciful or imaginative

“local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones”
Synonyms:
prosaic
unrhetorical
not rhetorical
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