English

Adjective

veriest

1. superlative form of very: most very; truest, most
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 52

     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.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Section III

     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): most, truest

Translations

Anagrams

• restive
• sievert