veritable.

Genuine or fully deserving the description, often used for emphasis or deliberate exaggeration.

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Words that belong together

• a veritable maze
• a veritable treasury

On the page

The passages formed a veritable maze behind the public rooms.

Her notebooks were a veritable treasury of unfinished encounters.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more veritable; superlative most veritable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.