🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

inexact sur le plan des faits

Pronunciation / Transliteration: inegzakt syr lə plan de fɛ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Factually-inaccurate/ˈfæk.tʃu.əli ɪnˈæk.jə.rət/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Cette déclaration est factuellement inexacte."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Containing errors of fact; not corresponding to objective reality or verifiable truth.

    "The article was retracted after it was proven to be factually-inaccurate."
  2. 2

    Characterized by incorrect data, false premises, or distorted statistics.

    "The speaker's defense relied on several factually-inaccurate claims about the economy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'factual' (from Late Latin 'factualis', pertaining to facts, from Latin 'factum') and 'inaccurate' (from Latin 'in-' meaning not, plus 'accuratus', done with care). The hyphenated compound has become standard in modern journalism and digital discourse to explicitly describe statements containing verifiable errors.

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