in point of fact

English

Prepositional phrase

in point of fact

1. (modal) Actually.
   • 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

     I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 22, in The Hand of Ethelberta:

     Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man.

   • 2013, David Bergman, The Violet Hour, page 186:

     In point of fact, Whitmore wasn't just a slow cummer, but rather unable to have an orgasm whenever anyone else was present.

Synonyms

• as a matter of fact, in fact; see also Thesaurus:actually

Related terms

• in point of

Translations

actually

• Icelandic: satt að segja, í sannleika sagt, í raun og veru
• Spanish: en rigor de verdad, a decir verdad, en honor a la verdad