veridical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ve=rid=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

veridical, a. [L. veridicus; verus true + dicere to say, tell.].

 Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.  Carlyle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

veridical, adj.
1 formal truthful.
2 Psychol. (of visions etc.) coinciding with reality.

Derivative

veridicality n. veridically adv.

Etymology

L veridicus f. verus true + dicere say

THESAURUS

veridical

actual, faithful, indisputable, just, real, right, speaking, strict, true, true-tongued, truth, truth-telling, uncolored, undeniable, undistorted, unreal, unvarnished, veracious

ROGET THESAURUS

veridical

Veracity

N veracity, truthfulness, frankness truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity, plain dealing, bona fides, love of truth, probity, ingenuousness, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, honest truth, sober truth, unvarnished tale, light of truth, truthful, true, veracious, veridical, scrupulous, sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved, open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted, honest, trustworthy, undissembling &c (dissemble), guileless, pure, truth- loving, unperjured, true blue, as good as one's word, unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised, uncontrived, truly, in plain words, in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth, as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole, honor bright, troth, in good sooth, in good earnest, unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae, without equivocation, cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart, by my troth, di il vero a affronterai il diavolo, Dichtung und Wahrheit, esto quod esse videris, magna est veritas et praevalet, that golden key that opes the palace of eternity, veritas odium parit, veritatis simplex oratio est, verite sans peur.