having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation
characterized by great determination; "a struggle against a determined enemy"
determined or decided upon as by an authority; "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"
devoting full strength and concentrated attention to; "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters"
not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"
conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information"
conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"
exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"
devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose; "a dedicated dancer"; "dedicated teachers"; "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"- A.Lincoln
capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"
being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow
being value measured in terms of purchasing power; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages"
not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real"
(of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings"
communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability"
upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"
proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true"
accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target"
accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"
conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"
make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine"