Very

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Very \Ver"y\ (v[e^]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Verier}
     (v[e^]r"[i^]*[~e]r); 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}, v. t., {Veracious}, {Verdict},


     {Verity}.]
     True; real; actual; veritable.
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           Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii.
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           He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he
           that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
                                                    --Prov. xvii.
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           The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
                                                    --Milton.
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           I looked on the consideration of public service or
           public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke.
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     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.
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     {Very Reverend}. See the Note under {Reverend}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Very \Ver"y\ (v[e^]r"[y^]), adv.
     In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly;
     excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very
     bright sun; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he
     was very much hurt.
     [1913 Webster] Very's night signals

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  very
       adj 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)}]
       adv 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 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