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Veritable

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Adjective

1. regular, veritable

often used as intensifiers

Example Sentences:
'a regular morass of details'
'a regular nincompoop'
'he's a veritable swine'

2. authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable

not counterfeit or copied

Example Sentences:
'an authentic signature'
'a bona fide manuscript'
'an unquestionable antique'
'photographs taken in a veritable bull ring'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Veritable

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adjective (prenominal)
1. 
(intensifier; usually qualifying a word used metaphorically)
he's a veritable swine!
2. rare
genuine or true; proper
I require veritable proof

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Veritable

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adjective
being such practically or in effect
a veritable feast

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Veritable

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adj.
Being truly so called; real or genuine: "Her tea ... was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self" (Mary Wilkins Freeman).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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