authentic
English
editAlternative forms
edit- authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)
Etymology
editFrom Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ɒ.ˈ
θ ɛn.tɪk/ - (US) IPA(key): /ɔ.ˈ
θ ɛn.tɪk/ - (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑ.ˈ
θ ɛn.tɪk/ Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editauthentic (comparative more authentic, superlative most authentic)
- Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
- The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
- Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
- an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information
- The report was completely authentic.
- (music)
- (obsolete) Authoritative.
- 1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 242:
- [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they believe him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſvvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as Authentick for Epiſcopacy, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is Authentick in him, but by the judgment vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgment vvhich they might ſafely learn from him?
Synonyms
edit- (of the claimed origin): genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked
- (conforming to fact): reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “not of the claimed origin”): non-authentic, nonauthentic, phony, fake; ingenuine, inauthentic, unauthentic
Derived terms
editTranslations
editof undisputed origin
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conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief
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References
edit- “authentic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- authentic in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “authentic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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