veracious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
veracious
    adj 1: habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness"
    2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account" [syn: {veracious},
       {right}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Veracious \Ve*ra"cious\, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true.
   See {Very}.]
   1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful;
      as, veracious historian.
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            The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely
            veracious.                            --Barrow.
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   2. Characterized by truth; true; not false; as, a veracious
      account or narrative.
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            The young, ardent soul that enters on this world
            with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will
            find it a mad one.                    --Carlyle.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "veracious":
      actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, categorically true,
      certain, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated,
      determined, direct, documentary, effectual, established, factual,
      historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, real,
      substantiated, sure-enough, true, true as gospel, true-meaning,
      true-speaking, true-tongued, truth-bearing, truth-declaring,
      truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving,
      truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, unconfuted,
      undeceitful, undeceptive, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous,
      unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted,
      valid, validated, veridical, verified, veritable

    

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