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Very   /vˈɛri/   Listen
Very

adverb
1.
Used as intensifiers; 'real' is sometimes used informally for 'really'; 'rattling' is informal.  Synonyms: rattling, real, really.  "He played very well" , "A really enjoyable evening" , "I'm real sorry about it" , "A rattling good yarn"
2.
Precisely so.  "He expected the very opposite"
adjective
(compar. verier; superl. veriest)
1.
Precisely as stated.
2.
Being the exact same one; not any other:.  Synonyms: identical, selfsame.  "The themes of his stories are one and the same" , "Saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers" , "On this very spot" , "The very thing he said yesterday" , "The very man I want to see"



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"Very" Quotes from Famous Books



... a line right over this log, I grabbed it. I got it easily, and this cruel hook beside. The Giant boy has gone away. I thank you kindly, Dr. Whiskers. Ahem! You might tell Mr. Squeaky that I say his band played very fine music last evening." ...
— Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. • Nellie M. Leonard
... immense power over the life," says Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, "is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. I fancy that I can select, in a crowded street, the busy, blessed women who support themselves. They carry themselves with an air of conscious self-respect ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... electrical, and in a very few minutes they were standing ready with their father; and strict silence being enjoined, they followed the Zulu warrior through the thin forest by the light of the moon, till, advancing very cautiously, the General made an observation or two, and then came back and led ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... said Priscilla. "You got them at Brannigan's, I hope. He keeps a particularly fine kind, very strong. You have a delicious chilly feeling on your tongue when you draw in your breath after eating them. But Brannigan's is the only place where ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... said Joe. "Fellows, Mr. Burton's getting pretty well along now. He'll be an old man before very long. I wish we three could do something to really show him our appreciation of what ...
— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll


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