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very

adv
/ˈvɛɹi/UK

Etymology

From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel.

  1. derived from *weh₁ros✻
  2. derived from *wēros✻
  3. derived from vērāx
  4. derived from vērāgus
  5. derived from verai — “true”
  6. inherited from verray

Definitions

  1. To a great extent or degree.

    • That dress is very you.
    • Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
    • She's so very similar to her mother.

  2. Conforming to fact, reality or rule

    Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

  3. Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

    • He was the very best runner there.
    • This is my very own treehouse.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. True, real, actual.

      • the fierce hatred of a very woman
      • the very blood and bone of our grammar
      • He tried his very best.

    2. The same

      The same; identical.

      • He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.
      • That's the very tool that I need.
      • The very man I wanted to see!

    3. With limiting effect

      With limiting effect: mere.

      • The very idea of climbing the ladder brings me out in a sweat.
      • The very idea/thought!
      • We have many examples in our daies, yea in very children, of such as for feare of some slight incommoditie have yeelded unto death.

    4. A surname, variant of Verey.

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Derived

all very well, at very least, fuck you very much, how very dare you, my very easy method just speeds up naming planets, my very educated mother just served us nachos, my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas, my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins, my very educated mother just served us noodles, my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas, spank you very much, thank ye so very much, thank you very much, very good, very high frequency, very important person, very large crude carrier, very-large-scale, very large scale integration, very-large-scale integration, very less, very light, very-light, very like a whale, very-long-baseline interferometry, very long-chain, very-long-chain, very low mass star, very much, Very Reverend, very special episode, very well, very yes, at the very least, at the very most, for very shame's sake, in very deed, the very idea, the very thing, under one's very eyes · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for very. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA