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Veritable vs Dependable - What's the difference?

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Veritable is a related term of dependable.


As adjectives the difference between veritable and dependable

is that veritable is veritable while dependable is able, or easily able to be depended on.

As a noun dependable is

a reliable person or thing.

veritable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • True, real.
  • * '>citation
    • Life in the Middle Ages was a colossal religious game. The
    dominant value was salvation in a life hereafter. Emphasizing
    that "to divorce medieval hysteria from its time and place is
    not possible,"21 Gallinek observes:
    It was the aim of man to leave all things worldly as far behind as
    possible, and already during lifetime to approach the kingdom of
    heaven. The aim was salvation. Salvation was the Christian master
    motive.—The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear
    because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was
    the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the
    veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.22
    He is a veritable swine.
    A fair is a veritable smorgasbord. (From ).

    Related terms

    * verify * veritably * verity * veracious

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    dependable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able, or easily able to be depended on.
    • He was a very dependable person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reliable person or thing.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 7, author=Jeff Z. Klein, title=At Full Strength, Red Wings Dominate, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But Datsyuk’s return rejuvenated the old dependables like Rafalski, Lidstrom and Marian Hossa, who consistently outshone Malkin and Crosby. }}