Word Finder - very

definition

True, real, actual.

example

He tried his very best.

definition

The same; identical.

example

He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.

definition

With limiting effect: mere.

definition

To a great extent or degree.

example

Not very many (of them) had been damaged.

synonyms

• drastically
• extremely
• greatly

definition

Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

synonyms

• actually
• authentically
• truly

definition

(with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

example

He was the very best runner there.

You love him very much.

It's a very small window.

You're a very interesting person.

The phone woke me up, even though it wasn't very loud.

And I will be for a very long time.

Alex knew very well what he wanted.

You don't seem to be very happy.

His eyes twinkled with the very devil.

For some reason, he experienced a very realistic vision.

This thing happens to be very important to me.

He's very protective of his family.

They rode slowly, and talked and laughed and were very jolly.

He got down from his horse and very gently took the little ones up in his big warm hands.

All cuddled down together and were very happy.

Actually, she knew very little about the man with whom she had promised to spend the summer.

But they've been very scarce for a few years and we usually have to be content with elephants or buffaloes, answered the creature, in a regretful tone.

From that vantage point, if you had tried to look fifty years ahead to what the world would be like in the year 2500 BC, you would have expected very little change.

There is no hieroglyph for the word "progress" because the very idea of progress didn't exist.

Cade was actually kissing her - and very well.

But this sawhorse can trot as fast as you can, Jim; and he's very wise, too.

They would probably be leaving very soon and anything she could do to hurry the process meant they would get to Ashley sooner.

But, except for these fleeting memories, if, indeed, they be memories, it all seems very unreal, like a nightmare.

Her father is very rich and stingy.

You weren't very receptive last time.

You know Martha; she doesn't do no very well.

It was all working out very well for him.

Dropping off home-cooked meals was a very nice gesture.

Her make-up, though she used very little, and a couple of bathing suits.

He can do several very wonderful things--if he knows how.

Both were very small.

Alex divided his attention between a very attentive Destiny and a reserved Carmen.

I'm not very good at that anyway.

I suppose I'm simply not very ambitious.

Betsy was very apologetic, in the nicest way, once we were snuggled in the privacy of our bed.

It must have been Molly; knowing her very life, was in my hands.

Then a little man jumped out of the basket, took off his tall hat, and bowed very gracefully to the crowd of Mangaboos around him.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

You have a very pretty neck.

I guess I wasn't very polite, making a face like that.

I guess my life isn't very interesting to other people, but Alex and I like the way we live.

I promise to drop in and see you the very next time I'm up this way.

I said I wasn't a very good dancing partner.

Tammy could have been born when he was very young.

Yet Yancey had been frightened at the very thought of it.

I looked up Andy Gordon and found lots of pictures of his paintings, but no pictures of him, and very little information about him.

The environment in the Arctic Circle is very hostile.

We're very happy together.

Doesn't look very sinister, does it?

He has been very assertive and direct.

You're a very kind man.