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1. Not fanciful or imaginative
   "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"
   - prosaic
    
2. Concerned with practical matters
   "a matter-of-fact approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
   - pragmatic, pragmatical

1. A disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide
   - question of fact
    
2. A matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact

Derived forms: matters of fact

See also: practical, unrhetorical

Type of: fact, head, question

Encyclopedia: Matter of fact