authentic
adjUK /ɒˈθɛn.tɪk/ · US /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
Etymology From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “authentic, genuine”), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”). Doublet of effendi.
1
Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
- The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
2
Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
- an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information
- The report was completely authentic.
3
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note.
4
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic.
5
Obsolete Authoritative.
- [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him.1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 11:
- Antonyms
- non-authentic, nonauthentic, phony, fake, ingenuine, inauthentic, unauthentic