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Verisimilar

Verisimilar \Ver`i*sim"i*lar\, a. [L. verisimilis; verus true + similis like, similar. See Very, and Similar.] Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely. ``How verisimilar it looks.''
--Carlyle.

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verisimilar

a. Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.

WordNet
verisimilar

adj. appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale"

Usage examples of "verisimilar".

Although we may not be immediately aware of them, they help us to experience Don Quixote and Sancho as complex, verisimilar characters, and they certainly facilitate the process of bonding that occurs between them.

This reading considers Don Quixote and the other characters as though they were real people, or better, as verisimilar literary characters, who act like real people act and whose behavior is determined the same way ours is.

If Don Quixote is a verisimilar character, his behavior ought to be motivated as ours is, by a combination of publicly verifiable conscious choices and unconscious proddings of which he remains unaware.

Some readers do not consider Don Quixote to be a complex, verisimilar character at all, but a puppet manipulated by a satirist, to engage in social criticism, or to tell us how not to read.

It is verisimilar that these grave mysteries could be explained in words: if the language of philosophers is not sufficient, the multiform Library will have produced the unprecedented language required, with its vocabularies and grammars.

Dostoevsky of course is thinking of his own novel by contrast, in which he takes great pains to delineate a verisimilar social framework.

Russian life than the more superficially verisimilar and equably average presentation of them favored by his literary contemporaries.

The more a play is verisimilar, the more it runs the risk of showing the audience a mere picture of their daily lives.