 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
very
adjective
1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" [syn: {very(a)}]
2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the
identical room we stayed in before"; "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" [syn: {identical},
{one and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)}, {very(a)}]
3: used to give emphasis to the relevance of the thing
modified; "his very name struck terror"; "caught in the
very act" [syn: {very(a)}]
4: used to give emphasis; "the very essence of artistic
expression is invention"- Irving R. Kaufman; "the very
back of the room" [syn: {very(a)}]
adverb
1: used as intensifiers; 'real' is sometimes used informally
for 'really'; 'rattling' is informal; "she was very
gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable
evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good
yarn" [syn: {really}, {real}, {rattling}]
2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very
opposite"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Very \Ver"y\, adverb
In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly;
excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very
bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he
was very much hurt.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Very \Ver"y\, adjective [Compar. {Verier}; superl. {Veriest}.] [OE.
verai, verray, OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL.
veracus, for L. verax true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin
to OHG. & OS. w[=a]r, G. wahr, D. waar; perhaps originally,
that is or exists, and akin to E. was. Cf. {Aver}, verb (used with an object),
{Veracious}, {Verdict}, {Verity}.]
True; real; actual; veritable.
Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii.
21.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he
that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
--Prov. xvii.
9.
The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
--Milton.
I looked on the consideration of public service or
public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke.
Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it
is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by
same, self-same, itself, and the like. ''The very hand,
the very words.'' --Shak. ''The very rats instinctively
have quit it.'' --Shak. ''Yea, there where very
desolation dwells.'' --Milton. Very is used
occasionally in the comparative degree, and more
frequently in the superlative. ''Was not my lord the
verier wag of the two?'' --Shak. ''The veriest hermit
in the nation.'' --Pope. ''He had spoken the very
truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood.''
--Hawthorne.
{Very Reverend}. See the Note under {Reverend}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "very":
a bit, a little, absolutely, actually, acutely, almighty, almost,
altogether, awful, awfully, bare, barest, big, bleeding, bloody,
bona fide, certainly, completely, correct, crazy, damned, danged,
darned, de facto, decidedly, deeply, definitely, dreadful,
dreadfully, eminently, entirely, especial, exact, exactly,
exceedingly, exceptionally, express, extraordinarily, extremely,
fairly, genuine, genuinely, greatly, highly, hugely,
hundred-percent, ideal, identical, in a measure, in a way,
in some measure, in truth, indubitable, jolly, just, kind of,
larruping, least, main, mere, mightily, mighty, model, monstrous,
mortally, most, much, nearly, notably, only too, parlous,
particular, passing, perfect, perfectly, pesky, plumb, powerful,
powerfully, practically, precise, precisely, pretty, profoundly,
pure, quite, rather, rattling, real, really, remarkably, right,
same, scarcely, selfsame, seriously, sheer, significantly, simple,
slightly, snapping, so, somewhat, sort of, spanking, special,
strikingly, super, sure-enough, surely, surpassingly, tellingly,
terribly, terrifically, thoroughly, to a degree, to some extent,
too, totally, true, truly, uncommonly, undoubted, unequivocally,
unquestionable, unquestionably, unusually, utter, vastly,
veritable, veritably, very much, vitally, whacking, whopping
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