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VERACIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does veracious mean?
• VERACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective VERACIOUS has 2 senses:
1. habitually speaking the truth
2. precisely accurate
Familiarity information: VERACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Habitually speaking the truth
Context example:
a veracious witness
Similar:
true; truthful (expressing or given to expressing the truth)
Derivation:
veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Precisely accurate
Synonyms:
right; veracious
Context example:
a veracious account
Similar:
accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)
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