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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Veritable \Ver"i*ta*ble\, adjective [F. v['e]ritable. See {Verity}.] Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. ''The veritable Deity.'' --Sir W. Hamilton. -- {Ver"i*ta*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
veritable
adjective
1: often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn: {regular(a)}, {veritable(a)}]
2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: {authentic}, {bona fide}, {unquestionable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "veritable": aboveboard, absolute, actual, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, bona fide, born, broad-based, categorically true, certain, certified, clean, clear, comprehensive, confirmed, congenital, consummate, corroborated, de facto, deep-dyed, demonstrated, determined, documentary, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, egregious, established, exhaustive, factual, fair and square, for real, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, historical, honest-to-God, indubitable, intensive, legitimate, not in error, objectively true, omnibus, omnipresent, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive, proved, pure, radical, real, regular, sheer, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, true, true as gospel, truthful, ubiquitous, unconditional, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, universal, unmistaken, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unreserved, unrestricted, up-and-up, utter, validated, veracious, verified, very, virtual, wholesale
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