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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being truly so called; real or genuine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Agreeable to truth or fact; true; real; actual; genuine.
  • Truthful; veracious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective True, real.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not counterfeit or copied
  • adjective often used as intensifiers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from verite; see verity.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

French véritable, from Latin veritabilis.

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Examples

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2004 2004

  • This, he explained, kept farming from being developed peacefully, and it was amidst what he called a veritable civil war stirred up from abroad that so many errors were committed.

    SANTA CRUZ RALLY 1971

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synonyms (110)

Words with the same meaning

  1. aboveboard
  2. absolute
  3. actual
  4. all-embracing
  5. all-encompassing
  6. all-out
  7. all-pervading
  8. ascertained
  9. attested
  10. authentic
  11. authenticated
  12. bona fide
  13. born
  14. broad-based
  15. categorically true
  16. certain
  17. certified
  18. clean
  19. clear
  20. comprehensive
  21. confirmed
  22. congenital
  23. consummate
  24. corroborated
  25. de facto
  26. deep-dyed
  27. demonstrated
  28. determined
  29. documentary
  30. downright
  31. dyed-in-the-wool
  32. effectual
  33. egregious
  34. established
  35. exhaustive
  36. factual
  37. fair and square
  38. for real
  39. foursquare
  40. genuine
  41. good-faith
  42. historical
  43. honest-to-God
  44. indubitable
  45. intensive
  46. legitimate
  47. not in error
  48. objectively true
  49. omnibus
  50. omnipresent
  51. on the level
  52. on the square
  53. on the up-and-up
  54. open
  55. open and aboveboard
  56. out-and-out
  57. outright
  58. perfect
  59. pervasive
  60. plain
  61. plumb
  62. positive
  63. proved
  64. pure
  65. radical
  66. real
  67. regular
  68. sheer
  69. single-hearted
  70. square
  71. square-dealing
  72. square-shooting
  73. straight
  74. straight-shooting
  75. substantial
  76. substantiated
  77. sure-enough
  78. sweeping
  79. thorough
  80. thoroughgoing
  81. through-and-through
  82. total
  83. true
  84. true as gospel
  85. truthful
  86. ubiquitous
  87. unconditional
  88. unconfuted
  89. undeniable
  90. undenied
  91. undoubted
  92. unerroneous
  93. unfallacious
  94. unfalse
  95. universal
  96. unmistaken
  97. unmitigated
  98. unqualified
  99. unquestionable
  100. unrefuted
  101. unreserved
  102. unrestricted
  103. up-and-up
  104. utter
  105. validated
  106. veracious
  107. verified
  108. very
  109. virtual
  110. wholesale

equivalents (3)

Other words for 'veritable'

  1. echt
  2. genuine
  3. typical

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. celestial
  2. fiery
  3. imaginary
  4. immense
  5. mighty
  6. miniature
  7. royal
  8. very

relateds (4)

relateds

  1. veracious
  2. verify
  3. veritably
  4. verity

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  • jwjarvis commented on the word veritable

    But on the one subject on which he has a thirst for

    knowledge, a veritable passion for guidance and help - nothing!

    January 25, 2011