Nah, its most often used to stress the metaphor the it precedes.
The weather today was a vertiable hurricane.
We lost the game in what was a vertiable massacre.
But if the "free dictionary" is your source, then... ok.
Would you prefer Merriam-Webster? I hear they're changing the definition of 'racism' b/c some 20 y/o black woman complained.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verifiable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veritable
also vertiable as you've typed twice now is not a word. :)
yeah, i mistyped, but from your MW link directly...
often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor
Also synonyms include... truly
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veritably
I'm like an autist with this grammar shit, come at me son.
You said...
He's verifiably retarded.
He's not vertiably retarded because he's actually retarded.
The precise opposite is true... he is in fact veritably retarded b/c he's actually retarded. The difference is that I'm not asking anyone to "verify" it. It's a statement not seeking confirmation.
Freedictionary.com is the least degenerate
merrian-webster and dictionary.cambridge reek of shitlibism on top of being a pile of garbage regarding layout and overall design
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so "hurricane" is a metaphor?
"often used" is not the exclusive use...
christ man think
I agree that by the textbook definition it could be used in the way you are attempting to use it, but...
Not once in literature or conversation have I ever seen/heard that word used to imply something is exactly the words that comes after it. Example?
Precisely as you mispelled earlier
The weather today was a vertiable hurricane.
the weather was a true hurricane (as correctly noted by veritable)
or
the weather was truly a hurricane (as also something that could be correctly noted by veritably)
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