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Veriest vs Aeriest - What's the difference?

veriest | aeriest |

As adjectives the difference between veriest and aeriest

is that veriest is superlative of very; truest, most while aeriest is superlative of aery.

veriest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (very); truest, most
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    • Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
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    • If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.81:
    • He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.

    Synonyms

    * (truest) (l), (l)

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    aeriest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (aery)

    • Anagrams

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    aery

    English

    Noun

    (aeries)

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • (poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
  • * 1667 , '': Book XI, in 1801, Henry John Todd (editor), ''The Poetical Works of John Milton , Volume 3, page 349,
    • The bird of Jove, ?toop'd from his aery tour, / Two birds of gaye?t plume before him drove ;

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