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The meaning of VERY is to a high degree : exceedingly. How to use very in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Very.
VERY meaning: 1. (used to add emphasis to an adjective or adverb) to a great degree or extremely: 2. used to add…. Learn more.
You use very to give emphasis to a superlative adjective or adverb. For example, if you say that something is the very best, you are emphasizing that it is the best.
Usage Note: In general usage very is not used alone to modify a past participle. Thus, we may say of a book that it has been very much praised or very much criticized (where very modifies the adverb much), but not that it has been very praised or very criticized.
Commonly intensified by reduplication, as in very, very important person. When used in their senses as degree adverbs, very and too never modify verbs (except in some dialects influenced by Chinese: see citations).
used to emphasize a superlative adjective or before own They wanted the very best quality. Be there by six at the very latest. At last he had his very own car (= belonging to him and to nobody else). It's the very worst time to be trying to sell your house.
True; real; actual; veritable: now used chiefly in an intensive sense, or to emphasize the identity of a thing mentioned with that which was in mind: as, to destroy his very life; that is the very thing that was lost: in the latter use, often with same: as, the very same fault.