veritable

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
veritable
    adj 1: often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of
           details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable
           swine" [syn: {regular(a)}, {veritable(a)}]
    2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona
       fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs
       taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: {authentic}, {bona
       fide}, {unquestionable}, {veritable}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Veritable \Ver"i*ta*ble\, a. [F. v['e]ritable. See {Verity}.]
   Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
   "The veritable Deity." --Sir W. Hamilton. -- {Ver"i*ta*bly},
   adv.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "veritable":
      aboveboard, absolute, actual, all-embracing, all-encompassing,
      all-out, all-pervading, ascertained, attested, authentic,
      authenticated, bona fide, born, broad-based, categorically true,
      certain, certified, clean, clear, comprehensive, confirmed,
      congenital, consummate, corroborated, de facto, deep-dyed,
      demonstrated, determined, documentary, downright, dyed-in-the-wool,
      effectual, egregious, established, exhaustive, factual,
      fair and square, for real, foursquare, genuine, good-faith,
      historical, honest-to-God, indubitable, intensive, legitimate,
      not in error, objectively true, omnibus, omnipresent, on the level,
      on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard,
      out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive,
      proved, pure, radical, real, regular, sheer, single-hearted,
      square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight,
      straight-shooting, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough,
      sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total,
      true, true as gospel, truthful, ubiquitous, unconditional,
      unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous,
      unfallacious, unfalse, universal, unmistaken, unmitigated,
      unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unreserved, unrestricted,
      up-and-up, utter, validated, veracious, verified, very, virtual,
      wholesale

    

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