Veracious

//vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    True.

    "The politician's statement was eventually proven to be veracious."

  2. 2
    Truthful; speaking the truth.

    "Now there are two curious circumstances to be observed in this relation of my uncle's, who was, as I have said, a perfectly veracious man."

Adjective
  1. 1
    precisely accurate wordnet
  2. 2
    habitually speaking the truth wordnet

Synonyms

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truetruthfulaccurateveridicalactualascertained

Example

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"The politician's statement was eventually proven to be veracious."

Etymology

From Latin verac- + -ious, stem of vērāx (“truthful”), from vērus (“true”).

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