veritable
VAIR-ih-tuh-buladjMeaning truly deserving the name; used to stress that a description fits
Memory hook VERY TABLE: TRULY a FEAST. Nana Lou’s dinner table is piled so high with food that feast is the only word for it: a veritable feast!
Granny Mae’s garden is a veritable jungle of tomatoes, beans and squash.
In context The surprise party was no small get-together but a veritable crowd: more than a hundred neighbors packed the yard and spilled out onto the sidewalk.
Similar genuine, real, true, absolute
Opposite fake, false, phony
From French véritable, “true,” from vérité, “truth,” from Latin veritas.