VERITABLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does veritable mean? 

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

1. often used as intensifiers

2. not counterfeit or copied

  Familiarity information: VERITABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Often used as intensifiers

Synonyms:

regular; veritable

Context example:

he's a veritable swine

Similar:

typical (exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category)

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)

 Context examples 

To White Fang, Beauty Smith was a veritable, if terrible, god.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“_Un sauvage—un veritable sauvage!_” cried Jules Vibart.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it is forward and in the galley, so it is in the steerage and aft, on this veritable hell-ship.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pandas and horses eat about the same amount of bamboo, but a herd of more than 20 horses created veritable feeding frenzies, destroying areas that the reserve was established to protect.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

When we came, at last, within a stage of London, and passed the veritable Salem House where Mr. Creakle had laid about him with a heavy hand, I would have given all I had, for lawful permission to get down and thrash him, and let all the boys out like so many caged sparrows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead—that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No you don’t!” Kelly cried, stepping between me and the ladder, his right hand shaped into a veritable strangler’s clutch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It makes me rage to think that this can go on, and whilst I am shut up here, a veritable prisoner, but without that protection of the law which is even a criminal's right and consolation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)