I'm having a hard time understanding the word "veritable". Please help
Vocabulary.com defines the above word as follows:
-"When something is veritable it is true, or at least feels that way. The trees and lights turned the campus into a veritable wonderland means that the campus seemed to be transformed into a true wonderland (if there is such a thing).
Veritable comes from the Latin veritas which means true. But unlike true, it does not describe things like statements. It is often used to enhance the word that follows it. "A veritable cornucopia of food"
is a lot of food of different varieties. If someone calls you "a veritable force of nature," they don't mean that you are actually a hurricane; they just mean that you have the unstoppable quality of a big old storm."
I'm still not sure what this word actually means. Does it mean "having qualities or aspects that give the subject the appearance/semblance of being nearly identical to the thing the subject is compared to"?
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- reptax I'm still not sure what this word actually means.
- Meaning is use.
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- By reading those and others, you'll eventually get a feel for the meaning by seeing how it's used.
- q=veritable&l=0 To me "veritable" means something like "a lot like" or "practically the same as" or "just about the same as", and it has more the function of intensifying the meaning of the noun it modifies than the function of conveying a very specific meaning of its own.
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reptaxI'm still not sure what this word actually means.
Meaning is use. Check out the sentences with the word "veritable" at fraze.it. By reading those and others, you'll eventually get a feel for the meaning by seeing how it's used.
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