veritably

English

Etymology

From veritable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

veritably (comparative more veritably, superlative most veritably)

1. In a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.

   • 1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “So Precious A Love”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

     A book with veritably no shading or subtlety

Synonyms

• genuinely

Translations

in a veritable manner

• Catalan: veritablement (ca)
• French: véritablement (fr)
• Spanish: verdaderamente (es)

Anagrams

• verbality