Veritable
['verɪtəb(ə)l] or ['vɛrɪtəbl]
Definition
(a.) Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. True, real, actual, genuine, positive, absolute, not fictitious.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:true, actual, real, authentic, original
ANT:false, fictitious, unreal, unauthentic, spurious, supposititious, feigned,sham, untrue
Typist: Perry
Examples
- The guide showed us the veritable armor worn by the great son-in-law and successor of Mahomet, and also the buckler of Mahomet's uncle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For the next four or five years 65 was a veritable beehive, day and night. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We hate and loathe these veritable fiends, he smiled again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This valley is the veritable Horn of Plenty so lauded by the Hellenes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Only once a year, at the vintage feaSt Oh, we follow old customs closely here, and I hope to show you a veritable Dionysiade before you leave us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Thou art a veritable phenomenon. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It came to most of us as a surprise that an electric current has magnetic properties and transforms a coil into a veritable magnet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We visited a Jesuit cathedral nearly two hundred years old and found in it a piece of the veritable cross upon which our Saviour was crucified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Was this not indeed a veritable hell, peopled by lost souls, dead and damned beyond all hope? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In the field of cookery such activity has been displayed that the average kitchen to-day is a veritable museum of modern inventions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Dejah Thoris was wont to say that in some things I was a veritable simpleton, and I guess that she was right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typist: Perry