Antonyms for veritably


Grammar : Adj, adv
Spell : ver-i-tuh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɛr ɪ tə bəl


Definition of veritably

Origin :
  • late 15c., from Anglo-French and Old French veritable "true," from verité (see verity) + -able. Probably lost mid-17c. and reborrowed or revived after 1830. Related: Veritably.
  • As in actually : adj truly real, existent
  • As in indeed : adv actually
  • As in literally : adv word for word; exactly
  • As in truly : adv really, doubtlessly
  • As in de facto : adv in reality
Example sentences :
  • He had veritably saved her father from disaster; had saved her from—from many things.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • The things were not only close: they were veritably upon us!
  • Extract from : « Vampires of Space » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • He was breathing heavily; he looked, veritably, a wounded man.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The grandson, then and there, was veritably drunk with the frenzy of despair!
  • Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day
  • Yes, it is even so: this is no vain phrase; it is veritably so.
  • Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle
  • His house was veritably his castle, where he had fortified himself.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 » by Various
  • This was veritably a period of financial delirium in Boston.
  • Extract from : « Frenzied Finance » by Thomas W. Lawson
  • He will veritably, if he get orders, draw out a long sword and kill me.
  • Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
  • It is prior to our intellect, independent of it, veritably the generator of Things.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson
  • This involuntary injustice to him was, she saw again, veritably crazed.
  • Extract from : « Amabel Channice » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Synonyms for veritably

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