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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recorded as actually having happened |
| Synonyms: | actual, ancient, archival, attested, authentic, chronicled, classical, commemorated, documented, factual, important, in truth, old, past, real, verifiable |
| Notes: | historic means 'noteworthy, highly significant,' whereas historical means 'pertaining to history, relevant to the passage of time'; if something has a place in history, it is historic, and if something has to do with the subject of history, it is historical |
| Antonyms: | fictional |
| Main Entry: | genetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming from heredity |
| Synonyms: | abiogenetic, ancestral, digenetic, eugenic, genesiological, genital, hereditary, historical, matriclinous, patrimonial, phytogenetic, sporogenous, xenogenetic |
| Antonyms: | acquired |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | storylike, chronological |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, fictional, fictive, historical, narrated, recounted, reported, retold, sequential |
| Antonyms: | rambling |
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