veracious
True.
Adjective
- True.
- The politician's statement was eventually proven to be veracious.
- "It were against all rules, whether of history or romance—whether I look to my grandfather Henri Quatre, or to the less veracious chronicles of Scuderi, and copy Oroondates—to depart without some favour." - 1834,...
Synonyms: veridical
Antonyms: false falsidical
- Truthful; speaking the truth.
- Now there are two curious circumstances to be observed in this relation of my uncle's, who was, as I have said, a perfectly veracious man. - 1864, Sheridan Le Fanu, Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling:
Synonyms: veridical
Antonyms: dishonest falsidical
Origin
From Latin verac- + -ious, stem of vērāx (“truthful”), from vērus (“true”).