Dictionary Definition
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
verray "true", from verai (Modern French: vrai), from *veracus, derived from Latin verax "true".Adjective
veryTranslations
exactly the same; identical
Adverb
veryTranslations
to a high degree
- Arabic: (jíddan)
- Armenian: շատ (shot)
- Catalan: molt
- Chinese: 很 (hĕn)
- Czech: velmi
- Dutch: zeer, heel, erg
- Esperanto: tre
- Finnish: erittäin, kovin, hyvin
- French: très
- German: sehr
- Greek: πολύ (polý)
- Hebrew: מאוד (məód)
- Hungarian: nagyon
- Icelandic: mjög, ákaflega, afar, ýkja, fjarska, einkar
- Ido: tre
- Irish: an-, ana-
- Italian: molto
- Japanese: とても (totemó), かなり (kanari), 非常に (ひじょうに, hijōni), 凄く (すごく, sugoku), 大変 (たいへん, taihén), 大分 (だいぶ, daibu), 随分 (ずいぶん, zuibun), ずっと (zutto), めちゃ (mecha), めっちゃ (metcha) (slang, from Kansai dialect), 超 (ちょう, chō) (slang), ばり (bari) (Hakata dialect), つるつる (tsuru tsuru) (Fukui dialect)
- Korean: 아주 (aju), 매우 (mae-u)
- Latvian: ļoti
- Norwegian: veldig
- Polish: bardzo
- Portuguese: muito
- Romanian: foarte
- Russian: очень (óčen’)
- Seri: áa
- Slovene: zelo
- Spanish: muy
- Swedish: mycket, väldigt
- Yiddish: זייער (zeyer)
true, truly
- ttbc Basque: guztiz, txit, arrunt, oso, hagitz, net, biziki, zeharo
- ttbc CJKV Characters: 太 (tài)
- ttbc Chinese: 非常 (fēicháng)
- ttbc French: même
- ttbc Indonesian: amat, sangat, nian, ～sekali
- ttbc Javanese: tenan
- ttbc Latin: use superlative adjective
- ttbc Scots: gey
- ttbc Slovak: veľmi
- ttbc Turkish: tam
- ttbc Welsh: reit
Extensive Definition
Very may refer to:
- Very (album) by the Pet Shop Boys
- Very (lunar crater)
- Very (crater on Mars)
very in Spanish: Very
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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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