IN FACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in fact mean? 

• IN FACT (adverb)
  The adverb IN FACT has 1 sense:

1. in reality or actuality

  Familiarity information: IN FACT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN FACT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In reality or actuality

Synonyms:

as a matter of fact; in fact; in point of fact

Context example:

as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father

 Context examples 

In fact, I had known life only in its intellectual phases.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Straight in front of us and not far off—in fact, so near that I wondered we had not noticed before—came a group of mounted men hurrying along.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Even shaking would tell him nothing, for as the plaster was wet it was probable that the pearl would adhere to it—as, in fact, it has done.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All thinkers on general subjects, the greatest minds in the world, in fact, rely on the specialists.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That is a possible solution—in fact, as matters stand, it is the most probable one.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In fact, sensation and emotion had left him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In fact, the grey cub was not given to thinking—at least, to the kind of thinking customary of men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he remembered seeing me at one of the minor theaters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His position, in fact, was substantially the same as that taken up by Professor Summerlee at the last meeting.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course, I lied: it was, in fact, a very faithful representation of Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)