adjective
- Not fanciful or imaginative.
- usage: "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
- synonyms: prosaic
- Concerned with practical matters.
- usage: "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
- synonyms: pragmatic, pragmatical
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