Veritable

3 definitions found

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

  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. -- {Ver"i*ta*bly},
     adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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