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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This is very much a story about listening and not listening.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

It’s all very strange for anything called a “leadership summit” to feature one speaker after another casting women not as leaders at all, but as servants.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

He said his dad was "very career-orientated", who started out as an apprentice in Cwmbran before rising through the ranks to become a mining engineer, working across Scotland, the North East, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

It seems too good to be true, and it almost made me feel like I would be stupid not to invest — which, of course, made me very, very suspicious.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

It looks as if a gust of wind could blow it apart with very little effort.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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