very
About 577.37 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb To a great extent or degree.
That dress is very you.
- adverb Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
- adverb Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
He was the very best runner there.
- adjective True, real, actual.
the fierce hatred of a very woman
- adjective The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.
- adjective With limiting effect: mere.
The very idea of climbing the ladder brings me out in a sweat.
Similar words
real really precise actual existent selfsame same one and the same identical rattling
Often followed by
much little well different good small few important large high
Word family
verier veriest
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