ADJECTIVE
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not fanciful or imaginative
local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones
a prosaic and unimaginative essay -
concerned with practical matters
a matter-of-fact account of the trip
a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem
How To Use matter-of-fact In A Sentence
- To which I responded matter-of-factly, ‘This is a bilingual country.’
- I got quite used to tiny black Tussock birds pecking matter-of-factly at my shoes.
- Jan was surprisingly matter-of-fact about her divorce.
- Michael Phillips was mostly "emotionless" during the interview and matter-of-factly described his life to Drukteinis, according to the report, including that he had lived with his grandfather for more than a year after having problems at home. Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
- I saw a report on CNN where a woman was rescued from being trapped in collapsed roof and wall debris for two days and what struck me was her odd calm as she was carried prone from a certain, crushing death — as well as her matter-of-fact confidence in a God that Robertson says her people forsook ... Archive 2010-02-01
- His approach involves massive research combined with a matter-of-fact storytelling style. Times, Sunday Times
- Life will now become a flat, prosaic routine of matter-of-fact; and sleep itself, erst so prolific of numerical configurations and mysterious stimulants to lottery-adventure, will be disfurnished of its figures and figments. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
- He sounded matter-of-fact when he told us good news and somehow sounded very convincing when he came out with the not so good news as well.
- Then at about midday or she calls to say, rather matter-of-factly, I thought, that her waters had broken and that she was having the baby.
- Use a matter-of-fact tone when disciplining your children.
