Veracious is an English word with synonyms like honest or truthful. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Veracious in a sentence
Veracious meaning
- True.
- Truthful; speaking the truth.
Using Veracious
- The main meaning on this page is: True. | Truthful; speaking the truth.
- Useful related words include: honest, truthful, true, accurate.
Context around Veracious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Veracious
- In this selection, "veracious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include cretans are veracious but epimenides and describing how veracious and animal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "veracious" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with veracious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I'd eaten all of this raw chicken as he was describing how veracious and animal like Big Nick. (19 words)
But if he be a liar, what he says is untrue, and consequently the Cretans are veracious; but Epimenides is a Cretan, and therefore what he says is true; saying the Cretans are liars, Epimenides is himself a liar, and what he says is untrue. (45 words)
But if he be a liar, what he says is untrue, and consequently the Cretans are veracious; but Epimenides is a Cretan, and therefore what he says is true; saying the Cretans are liars, Epimenides is himself a liar, and what he says is untrue. (45 words)
I'd eaten all of this raw chicken as he was describing how veracious and animal like Big Nick. (19 words)
Example sentences (2)
I'd eaten all of this raw chicken as he was describing how veracious and animal like Big Nick.
But if he be a liar, what he says is untrue, and consequently the Cretans are veracious; but Epimenides is a Cretan, and therefore what he says is true; saying the Cretans are liars, Epimenides is himself a liar, and what he says is untrue.