Authentic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief: an authentic account by an eyewitness.
  • adj. Having a claimed and verifiable origin or authorship; not counterfeit or copied: an authentic medieval sword.
  • adj. Law Executed with due process: an authentic deed.
  • adj. Music Of, relating to, or being a medieval mode having a range from its final tone to the octave above it.
  • adj. Music Of, relating to, or being a cadence with the dominant chord immediately preceding the tonic chord.
  • adj. Obsolete Authoritative.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
  • adj. Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
  • adj. Having authority.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real.
  • adj. Authoritative.
  • adj. Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible
  • adj. Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.
  • adj. Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.
  • n. An original (book or document).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having authority; possessing inherent authority; duly authorized; authoritative.
  • Real; of genuine origin; being what it purports to be: opposed to pretended or imaginary, fictitious, counterfeit, apocryphal, or unauthorized: as, authentic documents.
  • In law, executed with all due formalities; executed by the proper person and legally attested before the proper authorities: as, an authentic deed.
  • Entitled to acceptance or belief; reliable; trustworthy; of established credit, credibility, or authority: as, an authentic tale, book, writer.
  • Original; first-hand, as opposed to copied or transcribed.
  • Own; proper; properly belonging to one's self.
  • In music, having an immediate relation to the key-note or tonic: in distinction from plagal, which has a corresponding relation to the fifth or dominant in the octave below the key-note.
  • n. An authoritative or genuine document or book.
  • n. An original, as opposed to a copy or transcript.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not counterfeit or copied
  • adj. conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief
  • Equivalent
    echt    genuine    trusty    trustworthy   
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    genuine    real    authoritative    true    trustworthy    credible    reliable    unfaked   
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