VERITABLE

authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable

(adjective) not counterfeit or copied; “an authentic signature”; “a bona fide manuscript”; “an unquestionable antique”; “photographs taken in a veritable bull ring”

veritable, regular(a)

(adjective) often used as intensifiers; “a regular morass of details”; “a regular nincompoop”; “he’s a veritable swine”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

veritable (comparative more veritable, superlative most veritable)

True; genuine.

Anagrams

• avertible, rivetable

Source: Wiktionary


Ver"i*ta*ble, a. Etym: [F. véritable. See Verity.]

Definition: Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. "The veritable Deity." Sir W. Hamilton.

– Ver"i*ta*bly, adv.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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9 June 2025

HERMAPHRODITE

(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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