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veritable

/ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/

veritable adjective: true; genuine.

Adjective

veritable (comparative more veritable, superlative most veritable)

  1. True; genuine.
    • He is a veritable genius.
    • A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.
  2. As an intensifier: absolute, indisputable.
    • From 1748, a veritable troop of elocution experts declared war on Scots diction, providing inspirational lectures, books and yet more lists for diligent anglophiles to memorise.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75

veritable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

veritable in Tamil

முழு, பெரும், சுத்தமான, உண்மையான

veritable in Urdu

اصلی, حقیقی, واقعی

veritable in Malayalam

യഥാർത്ഥമായ, വസ്തുതയായ, അന്വർത്ഥമായ

veritable in Kannada

ನನ್ನಿ, ನನಸಾದ, ನಿಜವಾದ, ವಾಸ್ತವವಾದ, ಸಾಕ್ಷಾತ್ತಾದ, ತದ್ವತ್ತಾದ

Examples of veritable in a sentence

  • The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.
  • Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.
  • Blonds, brunettes, tall, stocky—it was a veritable smorgasbord of bronzed man-meat.

All 40 example sentences with veritable

Forms of veritable

comparativemore veritable
superlativemost veritable

Origin of veritable

From verity + -able, from Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.

Words formed from veritable

Questions about veritable

What does veritable mean?
Veritable means true; genuine.
What is veritable in Tamil?
Veritable in Tamil is முழு, பெரும், சுத்தமான. See Veritable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is veritable?
Veritable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce veritable?
Veritable is pronounced /ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/ (US).

Words near veritable in the dictionary

  1. verist
  2. veristic
  3. veristically
  4. verists
  5. veritability
  6. veritable
  7. veritableness
  8. veritably
  9. veritas
  10. veritates
  11. Verite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: veritable (page history and authors); veritable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veritable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veritable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veritable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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