veriest

English

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/, /ˈvɛɹ.i.əst/

Adjective

veriest

superlative form of very: most very; truest, most
Synonyms: most, truest
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 52, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
  
  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, chapter III, in Heart of Darkness:
  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.

Translations

truest, most

Anagrams

Ivester, Servite, Sievert, restive, sievert, tervies

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