'authentic' definitions:
Definition of 'authentic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information" [syn: authentic, reliable]
adjective
Not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable]
Synonyms of 'authentic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboveboard,
- absolute,
- accepted,
- accurate,
- actual,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- approved,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authoritative,
- avant-garde,
- based on,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- canonical,
- card-carrying,
- cathedral,
- certain,
- Christian,
- circumstantial,
- cognizable,
- conclusive,
- conventional,
- convincing,
- correct,
- creative,
- credible,
- cumulative,
- customary,
- damning,
- de facto,
- decisive,
- dependable,
- determinative,
- dinkum,
- documentary,
- documented,
- evangelical,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex cathedra,
- ex parte,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- fair and square,
- faithful,
- final,
- firm,
- firsthand,
- following the letter,
- for real,
- founded on,
- foursquare,
- fresh,
- genuine,
- good,
- good-faith,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- historical,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- imaginative,
- implicit,
- inartificial,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- indubitable,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- knowable,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- magisterial,
- material,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- new,
- novel,
- nuncupative,
- of the faith,
- official,
- on the level,
- on the square,
- on the up-and-up,
- open,
- open and aboveboard,
- original,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- overwhelming,
- positive,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- proper,
- pukka,
- pure,
- questionless,
- real,
- realistic,
- received,
- recognizable,
- reliable,
- revolutionary,
- right,
- rightful,
- scriptural,
- significant,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- solid,
- sound,
- square,
- square-dealing,
- square-shooting,
- standard,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straight-shooting,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- symptomatic,
- telling,
- textual,
- traditional,
- traditionalistic,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- true-blue,
- trustworthy,
- trusty,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unalloyed,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeniable,
- underived,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undisputed,
- undistorted,
- undoubted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unique,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unquestionable,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- up-and-up,
- valid,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- veritable,
- very,
- weighty,
- word-for-word