| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ve·rid·i·cal |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v -r d -kl |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also ve·rid·ic (-rdk) |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Truthful; veracious: veridical testimony. 2. Coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities: a viridical hallucination. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin v ridicus : vrus, true; see wr-o- in Appendix I + d cere, to say; see deik- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ve·rid i·cali·ty (-k l-t) —NOUN
ve·ridi·cal·ly —ADVERB
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