| very |
| 1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
| The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
| 2. adj. The same; identical. | |
| He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
| 3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
| 4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
| You’re drinking very slowly. | |
| That dress is very you. | |
| 5. adv. True, truly. | |
| 6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
| He was the very best runner there. | |
| extremely |
| 1. adv. (degree) To an extreme degree. | |
