veracious
adj/vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
Etymology From Latin vērāx (“truthful”) + -acious, from vērus (“true”).
1
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, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 321:
2
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:
- Derived terms
- unveracious, veraciously, veraciousness
- Related terms
- veracity