Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Veracity

Nouns
  • veracity
  • truthfulness, frankness, c. adj.
  • truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity
  • plain dealing
  • love of truth
  • probity etc. Probity
  • ingenuousness etc. (artlessness) Artlessness. the truth the whole truth and nothing but the the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
  • honest truth, sober truth etc. (fact) [Object of knowledge.] Truth
  • unvarnished tale
  • light of truth.
Verbs
  • speak the truth, tell the truth
  • speak by the card
  • paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors
  • make a clean breast etc. (disclose) Disclosure
  • speak one's mind etc. (be blunt) Artlessness
  • not lie etc. Falsehood, not deceive etc. Deception.
Adjectives
  • truthful, true
  • veracious, veridical
  • scrupulous etc. (honorable) Probity
  • sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved
  • open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted
  • honest, trustworthy
  • undissembling etc. (dissemble) etc. Falsehood
  • guileless, pure
  • truth-loving
  • unperjured
  • true blue, as good as one's word
  • unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide
  • outspoken, ingenuous etc. (artless) Artlessness
  • undisguised etc. (real) [Object of knowledge.] Truth. uncontrived.
Adverbs
  • truly etc. (really) [Object of knowledge.] Truth
  • in plain words etc. Artlessness
  • in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth
  • as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole
  • honor bright
  • troth
  • in good sooth, in good earnest
  • unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide
  • without equivocation
  • cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart
  • by my troth etc. (affirmation) Affirmation.
Phrases
  • that golden key that opes the palace of that golden key that opes the palace of eternity" [Milton]