veritable Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite often used as intensifiers
regular.
- a regular morass of details
- a regular nincompoop
- he's a veritable swine
adjective satellite not counterfeit or copied
bona fide; authentic; unquestionable.
- an authentic signature
- a bona fide manuscript
- an unquestionable antique
- photographs taken in a veritable bull ring

F. véritable. See Verity.

Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. "The veritable Deity." Sir W. Hamilton. -- Ver"i*ta*bly, adv.