veracious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite habitually speaking the truth
    • a veracious witness
  2. adjective satellite precisely accurate
    right.
    • a veracious account

WordNet

Ve*ra"cious adjective
Etymology
L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true. See Very.
Definitions
  1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
    The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. Barrow.
  2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.
    The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one. Carlyle.

Webster 1913