very

• (s) precisely as stated
  • the very center of town
• (r) 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
  rattling, real, really,
• (r) precisely so
  • on the very next page
  • he expected the very opposite
• (s) 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
  selfsame, identical,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity