veracious

ve·ra·cious

adjective \və-ˈrā-shəs\

Definition of VERACIOUS

1

: truthful, honest

2

: marked by truth : accurate

— ve·ra·cious·ly adverb

— ve·ra·cious·ness noun

Examples of VERACIOUS

1. <he has a reputation for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things>
2. <most readers have accepted the book as a veracious account of Samuel Johnson's table talk>

Origin of VERACIOUS

Latin verac-, verax — more at very

First Known Use: circa 1677

Related to VERACIOUS

Synonyms

honest, truthful

Antonyms

dishonest, fibbing, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, untruthful

Related Words

candid, direct, forthcoming, forthright, foursquare, frank, freehearted, free-spoken, open, openhearted, out-front, outspoken, plain, plainspoken; believable, credible, true, veritable; artless, earnest, genuine, guileless, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious; conscientious, moral, principled, scrupulous; aboveboard, dependable, reliable, trustable, trustworthy, trusty

Near Antonyms

fallacious, false, untrue; unbelievable, undependable, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy; bluffing, dissembling, dissimulating, duplicitous, equivocating, hypocritical, insincere, posing, pretending; artful, deceitful, deceptive, devious, evasive, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily

Rhymes with VERACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, vinaceous, voracious