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(adj)
True; genuine.
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In good faith; sincere; without deception or ulterior motive.
Reliable or trustworthy.
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
Deserving of trust, reliable.
Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated
Undeniable, obvious.
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
(adv)
In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
Honest, and always telling the truth.
(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
(n)
(metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
Believable or plausible.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed.
Suitable.
Normal, average; to be expected.
Naturally as part or consequence of something.
Having meaning, significant.
Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
(not comparable) Newly created.
(idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic.
Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
Official.
Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority.
(countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
(of an agreement, contract, etc.) Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.
(figuratively) Completely developed or formed.
Approved by authority; authorized.
Not spoiled or touched; pure.
Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
Not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.
(informal) Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
(Judaism) Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food).
(heraldry) A depiction of a handshake.
(Polari) Good.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
The International Chess Federation.
(idiomatic) Having full qualification, credentials or preparation; entire; real.
Having met an official standard.
established as genuine
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
Universally agreed upon; not disputed.
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
(of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
A person who espouses authenticism
(attributive only) real, true, actual, genuine, bona fide
Purebred; genetically pure.
Marked by truth; truthful; honest; genuine
(obsolete) Native (a person born in a particular geographic place, such as a country or region)
Pertaining to the provenance of something.
Of, relating to, or derived from an autograft.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
True, accurate, corresponding to reality.
that has originated from itself
Of a person or an animal:
Of or related to originalism.
Misspelling of autogenous. [Produced independently of an external cause or influence.]
Native to the place where found; indigenous.
Based on fact; real, true.
Existing in nature.
Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
(archaic) Self-produced; autogenous.
Being, pertaining to, or as an autonym.
(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
(by extension) Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical.
That originates; creative
Of or pertaining to a truism.
(often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation.
(often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
Self-generated.
Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
Containing or relating to an autograph.
(genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
Relating to an autograph, or one's own handwriting.
Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
Of or providing evidence.
A historical romance.
(grammar, of a word, phrase, or especially an adjective) Possessing the property it describes.
Having an innate aptitude for something, from (or as if from) the time of one's birth.
A goal that is striven for.
Alternative form of autoptic. [Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation.]
veridical
(not comparable) Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession.
Constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on or derived from.
Similar in nature.
Of, befitting, or pertaining to an act or deed; actual.
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.