Pronounced: TOP-see
Notes: I’ve never run across this word (but see tomorrow’s comments), but if you are sufficiently well-read, you may know it
Yesterday’s word
The word veridical means
- truthful; veracious
- not illusory; genuine
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I saw the “ver” and thought “green”, and then I saw the similarity to “vertical” and thought it may be related. Our word came from the Latin word veridicus, which is made up of verus (true) and dicere (to say). The second meaning above tends to be limited to the philosophical and psychological fields.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 