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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“Prices are very cheap ... it really helps those families who struggle,” Fraga said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

And there’s very little known about it, is there anything you can say about it?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Ahmed: That whiteboard would be very, very big, very, very large.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

So I wanted to make a comedy in this playground of shame because it’s something that I can relate to, but I just had a sense that this is a very universal feeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The picture that Hawes makes is probably the very first of doctors being doctors instead of doctors posing for portraits.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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