Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being truly so called; real or genuine: "Her tea ... was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self” ( Mary Wilkins Freeman).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. True, real.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not counterfeit or copied
- adj. often used as intensifiers
Etymologies
- French véritable, from Latin veritabilis. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from verite; see verity. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion.”
“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.”
“Kiang-si, which he describes as a veritable Garden of Eden.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency ISI had supported militants known as the Haqqani network, which he described as a "veritable arm" of the ISI.”
“In his final congressional testimony before retiring next week, Mullen said success in Afghanistan is threatened by the Pakistani government's support for the Haqqani network of militants, which he called a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency.”
“Reader John Coletti and his '63 Buick Riviera, which he calls a veritable "stealth tank.”
“The basin into which they entered they described as a veritable paradise, the air cool and wholesome, the shores of the lake full of green pastures and broad savannahs dotted with horses and cattle, and round about all a coronal of azure mountains.”
“After all, Scandinavia is/was known as a veritable "workers paradise.”
“We carefully avoided our travelling companions that night, but learned the next morning that the Frenchman had slept on four chairs, and rejected the hotel coffee with the remark that it was not 'veritable' -- a criticism in which he was quite justified.”
“Federal law places high hurdles before defendants in such cases, but Cory Maples, convicted in 1997 of two murders, cleared them owing to what one justice called a "veritable perfect storm of misfortune.”
The Wall Street Journal: Death-Row Defendant Can Proceed With Appeal
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘veritable’.
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Iaan
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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Orwellian Purism
Words and phrases George Orwell criticizes in his essay 'Politics and the English Language'.
ring the changes on, take up the cudge..., toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to..., play into the han..., no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubl..., on the order of t..., Achilles’ heel, swan song and 162 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1856 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 222 more...
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ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
Tweets
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