Veritable \Ver"i*ta*ble\, a. [F. v['e]ritable. See Verity.]
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
"The veritable Deity." --Sir W. Hamilton. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
veritable
adj 1: often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details";
"a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn:
regular(a), veritable(a)]
2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona
fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique";
"photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic,
bona fide, unquestionable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "veritable":
aboveboard, absolute, actual, all-embracing, all-encompassing,
all-out, all-pervading, ascertained, attested, authentic,
authenticated, bona fide, born, broad-based, categorically true,
certain, certified, clean, clear, comprehensive, confirmed,
congenital, consummate, corroborated, de facto, deep-dyed,
demonstrated, determined, documentary, downright, dyed-in-the-wool,
effectual, egregious, established, exhaustive, factual,
fair and square, for real, foursquare, genuine, good-faith,
historical, honest-to-God, indubitable, intensive, legitimate,
not in error, objectively true, omnibus, omnipresent, on the level,
on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard,
out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive,
proved, pure, radical, real, regular, sheer, single-hearted,
square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight,
straight-shooting, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough,
sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total,
true, true as gospel, truthful, ubiquitous, unconditional,
unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous,
unfallacious, unfalse, universal, unmistaken, unmitigated,
unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unreserved, unrestricted,
up-and-up, utter, validated, veracious, verified, very, virtual,
wholesale
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
authentic, bona fide, regular(a), unquestionable, veritable(a)
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