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veritably

/ˈvɛɹɪtəbli/

veritably adverb: in a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.

Adverb

veritably (comparative more veritably, superlative most veritably)

  1. In a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
    • My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIX, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 315
    • A book with veritably no shading or subtlety1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “So Precious A Love”, in Gay Community News, page 7
    Synonyms:
    genuinely

veritably meaning in Tamil and Urdu

veritably in Tamil

மெய்ப்படியாகவே

veritably in Urdu

درحقیقت, فی الاصل, فی الحقیقت, سچ مچ

Synonyms of veritably

Forms of veritably

comparativemore veritably
superlativemost veritably

Origin of veritably

From veritable + -ly.

Questions about veritably

What does veritably mean?
Veritably means in a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
What is veritably in Tamil?
Veritably in Tamil is மெய்ப்படியாகவே. See Veritably meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is veritably?
Veritably is an adverb.
How do you pronounce veritably?
Veritably is pronounced /ˈvɛɹɪtəbli/.

Words near veritably in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: veritably (page history and authors); veritably (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veritably (Urdu 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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