AUTHENTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authentic mean? 

• AUTHENTIC (adjective)
  The adjective AUTHENTIC has 2 senses:

1. conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief

2. not counterfeit or copied

  Familiarity information: AUTHENTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHENTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief

Synonyms:

authentic; reliable

Context example:

reliable information

Similar:

trustworthy; trusty (worthy of trust or belief)

Derivation:

authenticity (undisputed credibility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not counterfeit or copied

Synonyms:

authentic; bona fide; unquestionable; veritable

Context example:

photographs taken in a veritable bull ring

Similar:

echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)

Derivation:

authenticity (undisputed credibility)

 Context examples 

I cannot produce written proof again, but I can give as authentic oral testimony as you can desire, of what he is now wanting, and what he is now doing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)