Definitions

very

[ver-ee] / ˈvɛr i /

ADJECTIVE

real, exact

Synonyms

WEAK

actual appropriate authentic bare bona fide correct especial express genuine ideal identical indubitable mere model perfect plain precise pure right same selfsame sheer simple special sure-enough true undoubted unqualified unquestionable veritable very same

Antonyms

WEAK

inexact

ADVERB

much, really; to a high degree

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely awfully certainly decidedly deeply eminently exceedingly excessively extraordinarily extremely greatly highly incredibly noticeably particularly pretty profoundly remarkably surprisingly terribly truly uncommonly unusually wonderfully

WEAK

acutely amply astonishingly considerably dearly emphatically exaggeratedly extensively indispensably largely notably positively powerfully pressingly prodigiously substantially superlatively surpassingly vastly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

commonly doubtfully dubiously indefinite little unremarkably usually

Example Sentences

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But between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, it looked very different.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Wilding, who was then a young researcher on the team, said the results had been "very interesting" but at the time the future significance of this discovery was not fully appreciated.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

“We’re very fickle with the small-cap trade, unfortunately,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide’s Investment Management Group.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026

Of the dozen-and-a-half senior militants on Hamas’s military council before the war, Haddad was one of a very few left alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Among the very first names read from the list was Betsie’s.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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