Very

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. In a high degree; extremely: very happy; very much admired.
  • ad. Truly; absolutely: the very best advice; attended the very same schools.
  • ad. Used in titles: the Very Reverend Jane Smith.
  • adj. Complete; absolute: at the very end of his career; the very opposite.
  • adj. Being the same one; identical: the very question she asked yesterday.
  • adj. Being particularly suitable or appropriate: the very item needed to increase sales.
  • adj. Being precisely as stated: the very center of town.
  • adj. Mere: The very thought is frightening.
  • adj. Actual: caught in the very act of stealing.
  • adj. Genuine; true: "Like very sanctity, she did approach” ( Shakespeare).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. True, real, actual
  • adj. The same; identical.
  • adj. With limiting effect: mere.
  • ad. to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly
  • ad. true, truly
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. True; real; actual; veritable.
  • ad. In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • True; real; actual; veritable: now used chiefly in an intensive sense, or to emphasize the identity of a thing mentioned with that which was in mind: as, to destroy his very life; that is the very thing that was lost: in the latter use, often with same: as, the very same fault.
  • [Very is occasionally used in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative.
  • Truly; actually.
  • In a high degree; to a great extent; extremely; exceedingly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
  • ad. precisely so
  • adj. being the exact same one; not any other:
  • adj. precisely as stated
  • Equivalent
    same    precise   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    true    real    actual    veritable    exceedingly    excessively    extremely    right    quite    hugely   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie    Azeri    Barrie    Barry    Berri    Berry    Bury    Canary    Carey    Carrie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    only    entire    extraordinary    above    still    too    so    at    most    relief