veritable
adj/ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/
Etymology
From Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.
- derived from veritabilis
- derived from veritable
- borrowed from veritable
Definitions
True
True; genuine.
- He is a veritable genius.
- A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.
- The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.
As an intensifier
As an intensifier: absolute, indisputable.
- From 1748, a veritable troop of elocution experts declared war on Scots diction, providing inspirational lectures, books and yet more lists for diligent anglophiles to memorise.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at veritable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at veritable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at veritable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA