verisimilar

verisimilar
    adj 1: appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale"
    

Verisimilar \Ver`i*sim"i*lar\, a. [L. verisimilis; verus true +
   similis like, similar. See {Very}, and {Similar}.]
   Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely. "How
   verisimilar it looks." --Carlyle.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "verisimilar":
      apt, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, fair,
      following the letter, foreseeable, genuine, good, honest,
      honest-to-God, hopeful, in the cards, inartificial, lawful,
      legitimate, liable, lifelike, likely, literal, natural,
      naturalistic, odds-on, original, predictable,
      predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable,
      promising, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple,
      sincere, statistically probable, sterling, sure-enough,
      true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated,
      unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted,
      uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted,
      unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning,
      unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented,
      unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated,
      unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical,
      word-for-word