veridical

[prettygoodword]

veridical (vuh-RID-i-kal) - adj., truthful, veracious, actual, genuine, not illusory.


Senses of both "not a lie" and "not a hallucination." Borrowed around 1650 from Latin vēridicus, from vērus, true + dīcere, to say -- "truth-talking."

---L.