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veracious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of veracious

1 being in the habit of telling the truth
  • He has a reputation for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things.
Synonyms of veracious

honest, truthful
Words Related to veracious

candid, direct, forthcoming, forthright, foursquare, frank, 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, trustworthy, trusty
Near Antonyms of veracious

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
Antonyms of veracious

dishonest, fibbing, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, untruthful
2 following an original exactly
  • Most readers have accepted the book as a veracious account of Samuel Johnson's table talk.
Synonyms of veracious

accurate, authentic, exact, faithful, precise, right, strict, true
Words Related to veracious

lifelike, realistic

careful, conscientious, meticulous, punctilious, scrupulous

authoritative

bona fide, genuine, real
Near Antonyms of veracious

careless, slack, slipshod, slovenly

erroneous, incorrect, invalid, off, unsound, untrue, untruthful, wrong
Antonyms of veracious

corrupt, corrupted, false, imprecise, inaccurate, inauthentic, inexact, loose, unfaithful
3 being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard
  • a novel that presents a fairly veracious and unvarnished picture of the lives of affluent suburbanites
Synonyms of veracious

accurate, correct, dead-on, exact, good, on-target, precise, proper, right, so, spot-on, true
Words Related to veracious

legitimate, logical, sound, valid

errorless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, inerrant, infallible, letter-perfect, perfect

rigorous, strict, stringent
Phrases Synonymous with veracious

on target, on the money
Near Antonyms of veracious

defective, faulty, flawed, imperfect
Antonyms of veracious

false, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, off, untrue, wrong

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