释义 |
facty, a.|ˈfæktɪ| [f. fact n. + -y1.] a. Full of facts.
1883Pall Mall G. 2 Nov. 5/1 A ‘facty’ article on ‘The Political Condition of Spain’. 1884Ibid. 4 Dec. 5/1. 1890 Ibid. 3 Feb. 2/2. b. Of persons: freq. implying ‘deficient in emotion or imagination’.
1901Westm. Gaz. 18 June 10/1 Mr. Page, most interesting because most real and ‘facty’ of Horace's editors. 1930H. G. Wells Autocracy of Mr. Parham ii. i. 80 He was facty and explicit after the manner of his type. 1934― Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 540 To him [sc. G. B. Shaw]..I have always appeared heavily and sometimes formidably facty and close-set; to me his judgements, arrived at by feeling and expression, have always had a flimsiness. |