Verisimilar

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Verisimilar \Ver`i*sim"i*lar\, a. [L. verisimilis; verus true +
     similis like, similar. See {Very}, and {Similar}.]
     Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely. "How
     verisimilar it looks." --Carlyle.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  verisimilar
       adj : appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "verisimilar":
     apt, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, fair,
     following the letter, foreseeable, genuine, good, honest,
     honest-to-God, hopeful, in the cards, inartificial, lawful,
     legitimate, liable, lifelike, likely, literal, natural,
     naturalistic, odds-on, original, predictable,
     predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable,
     promising, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple,
     sincere, statistically probable, sterling, sure-enough,
     true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated,
     unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted,
     uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted,
     unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning,
     unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented,
     unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated,
     unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical,
     word-for-word