Synonyms and Antonyms of veracious
1
being in the habit of telling the truth
- he has a reputation for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things
candid, direct, forthcoming, forthright, foursquare, frank, freehearted, free-spoken, open, openhearted, out-front, outspoken, plain, plainspoken
believable, credible, true, veritable
artless, earnest, genuine, guileless, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
conscientious, moral, principled, scrupulous
aboveboard, dependable, reliable, trustable, trustworthy, trusty
fallacious, false, untrue
unbelievable, undependable, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy
bluffing, dissembling, dissimulating, duplicitous, equivocating, hypocritical, insincere, posing, pretending
artful, deceitful, deceptive, devious, evasive, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily
2
following an original exactly
- most readers have accepted the book as a veracious account of Samuel Johnson's table talk
careless, slack, slipshod, slovenly
erroneous, incorrect, invalid, off, unsound, untrue, untruthful, wrong
3
being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard
- a novel that presents a fairly veracious and unvarnished picture of the lives of affluent suburbanites
accurate, bang on [chiefly British], correct, dead-on, exact, good, on-target, precise, proper, right, so, spot-on, true
legitimate, logical, sound, valid
errorless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, inerrant, infallible, letter-perfect, perfect
rigorous, strict, stringent
