veritable
pronunciation
How to pronounce veritable in British English:
UK [ˈverɪtəbl]
How to pronounce veritable in American English:
US [ˈvɛrɪtəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- often used as intensifiers
- not counterfeit or copied
Word Origin
- veritable
- veritable: see very
- veritable (adj.)
- early 15c., from Anglo-French and Old French veritable "true, real, truthful, valid (in law)," from verité (see verity) + -able. Probably lost mid-17c. and reborrowed or revived after 1830. Related: Veritably.
Example
- 1. Profitable speculators , in contrast , are veritable philanthropists .
- 2. The deputies called burqas " veritable walking prisons " .
- 3. Cause : the semitic faiths constitute a veritable rebellion against logic and reason .
- 4. The paper-stuffed study , with its sloping ceiling , is a veritable storehouse of talbott 's political life .
- 5. Another research group aimed to allow a pilot to steer the rocket and eject just before it reached its target - a veritable suicide mission .