Thesaurus / matter-of-fact
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYI hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSMany British Ferns evidence a marked tendency to “sport,” and this is a fact which the beginner should always bear in mind.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTIN“And the matter of the will was all disposed of by the probate judge today, I hear,” said the judge, his hand on the door.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENIn fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONRecognition of the pneumococcus depends upon its morphology, the fact that it is Gram-staining, and the presence of a capsule.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDThe fact that the day following the punishment parade was a Sunday brought about a certain relaxation from discipline.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYI claim that it contains many errors of fact, and the Higher Criticism supports the claim; as we shall see.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDThe first month I was here, when there were only five of us, it was quite another matter, but now the room is crowded every time.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYLet us look over these points again, and make the matter still clearer and more simple.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWORDS RELATED TO MATTER-OF-FACT
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
- applied
- both feet on the ground
- businesslike
- commonsensical
- constructive
- doable
- down-to-earth
- efficient
- empirical
- experimental
- factual
- feasible
- functional
- handy
- hard-boiled
- implicit
- in action
- in operation
- matter-of-fact
- nuts and bolts
- operative
- orderly
- possible
- practicable
- pragmatic
- rational
- reasonable
- sane
- sensible
- serviceable
- sober
- solid
- sound
- systematic
- unidealistic
- unromantic
- usable
- utile
- utilitarian
- virtual
- workable
- workaday
- working
- actual
- banal
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- drab
- dry
- dull
- everyday
- factual
- flat
- garden-variety
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- matter-of-fact
- monotonous
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- workaday
- yawn
- zero
- all there
- astute
- attentive
- au courant
- aware
- canny
- cognizant
- commonsensical
- conscious
- consequent
- conversant
- cool
- discerning
- discreet
- discriminating
- down-to-earth
- far-sighted
- having all one's marbles
- in right mind
- informed
- intelligent
- judicious
- knowing
- logical
- matter-of-fact
- practical
- prudent
- rational
- sagacious
- sage
- sane
- sentient
- shrewd
- sober
- sound
- together
- well-reasoned
- well-thought-out
- wise
- witting
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