Veritable

Word VERITABLE
Character 9
Hyphenation ver i ta ble
Pronunciations /ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/

Definitions and meanings of "Veritable"

What do we mean by veritable?

Being truly so called; real or genuine. adjective

Agreeable to truth or fact; true; real; actual; genuine.

Truthful; veracious.

Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. adjective

True, real. adjective

Not counterfeit or copied adjective

Often used as intensifiers adjective

True; genuine.

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The word "veritable" in example sentences

HINOJOSA (on camera): D.A. is a man on a mission trying to stop what he calls a veritable modern day invasion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (1971)

Kiang-si, which he describes as a veritable Garden of Eden. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Reader John Coletti and his '63 Buick Riviera, which he calls a veritable "stealth tank." ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)

After all, Scandinavia is/was known as a veritable "workers paradise." ❋ David Macaray (2011)

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. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

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." ❋ Jess Bravin (2012)

Virtue's anecdotes recall a veritable who's who of San Miguel society, including Heath Bowman, Charles Allen Smart and Mackinley Helm among many, many others. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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