英语词汇“veracious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Someone who is veracious speaks the truth — like your brutally honest friend who always lets you know what she thinks about your outfits, your hairstyle, your lasagna recipe, and your taste in movies.

Think of a veracious person as someone who is like a witness under oath in a court of law, someone who speaks “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Don’t ask a question of a veracious friend unless you really want to know the answer. The adjective veracious can be applied not just to people but also to things that are true or accurate, such as "a veracious story" or "a veracious statement."

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

veracious / voracious

Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf. A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie.

Voracious is spelled with an "o" for an open mouth or the hole in your stomach you're trying to fill if you have a voracious appetite. It's used to describe appetites, but not always for food — a voracious reader devours books by reading one after the other. Here are some unrelenting examples:

The fish are such voracious eaters that they have crowded out other species and disrupted ecosystems. — Wall Street Journal

A voracious reader, he became a self-educated art historian and a well-informed generalist whose knowledge awed his friends, including well-known artists. — New York Times

The more formal word veracious comes from the Latin root verus for "truth." You might recognize that root in words like verify "to show something's true," or verisimilitude for "seeming true to life." Veracious means truthful, so a veracious author, for example, is one who tells the truth. Here are more examples:

This interesting, although not very veracious author, gives the following account of the process. — J.G. Millingen

I ought to have bought up all sorts of memories, and written the most veracious novel the world has seen. — Israel Zangwill

If you had to hang out with either a voracious person or a veracious one, choose the veracious, or truthful, one. The voracious one would definitely eat all of your French fries, and your brains if you hang out with zombies.

WORD FAMILY

veracious: veraciously+/veracity: veracious, veracities

USAGE EXAMPLES

For too long this film renders a portrait of a feminist artist in clown paint, though Tomlin hangs in with a veracious, multidimensional performance.

Los Angeles Times(Aug 20, 2015)

Oyster’s an obvious option for veracious readers, or those of us living in 300 sq ft studios.

Forbes(Sep 05, 2013)

Christian Brinton says of the art of Gari Melchers that it is explicit and veracious.

Goolrick, John T., Historic Fredericksburg—The Story o...(2012)

1adj habitually speaking the truth

a veracious witness

Syn

true, truthful

expressing or given to expressing the truth

2adj precisely accurate

a veracious account

Syn

right
accurate

conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

单词	veracious
释义	veracious (once / 9479 pages) adj Someone who is veracious speaks the truth — like your brutally honest friend who always lets you know what she thinks about your outfits, your hairstyle, your lasagna recipe, and your taste in movies. Think of a veracious person as someone who is like a witness under oath in a court of law, someone who speaks “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Don’t ask a question of a veracious friend unless you really want to know the answer. The adjective veracious can be applied not just to people but also to things that are true or accurate, such as "a veracious story" or "a veracious statement." CHOOSE YOUR WORDS veracious / voracious Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf. A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie. Voracious is spelled with an "o" for an open mouth or the hole in your stomach you're trying to fill if you have a voracious appetite. It's used to describe appetites, but not always for food — a voracious reader devours books by reading one after the other. Here are some unrelenting examples: The fish are such voracious eaters that they have crowded out other species and disrupted ecosystems. — Wall Street Journal A voracious reader, he became a self-educated art historian and a well-informed generalist whose knowledge awed his friends, including well-known artists. — New York Times The more formal word veracious comes from the Latin root verus for "truth." You might recognize that root in words like verify "to show something's true," or verisimilitude for "seeming true to life." Veracious means truthful, so a veracious author, for example, is one who tells the truth. Here are more examples: This interesting, although not very veracious author, gives the following account of the process. — J.G. Millingen I ought to have bought up all sorts of memories, and written the most veracious novel the world has seen. — Israel Zangwill If you had to hang out with either a voracious person or a veracious one, choose the veracious, or truthful, one. The voracious one would definitely eat all of your French fries, and your brains if you hang out with zombies. WORD FAMILY veracious: veraciously+/veracity: veracious, veracities USAGE EXAMPLES For too long this film renders a portrait of a feminist artist in clown paint, though Tomlin hangs in with a veracious, multidimensional performance. Los Angeles Times(Aug 20, 2015) Oyster’s an obvious option for veracious readers, or those of us living in 300 sq ft studios. Forbes(Sep 05, 2013) Christian Brinton says of the art of Gari Melchers that it is explicit and veracious. Goolrick, John T., Historic Fredericksburg—The Story o...(2012) 1adj habitually speaking the truth a veracious witness Syn true, truthful expressing or given to expressing the truth 2adj precisely accurate a veracious account Syn right accurate conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
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