Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Very   /vˈɛri/   Listen
adverb
Very  adv.  In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.



adjective
Very  adj.  (compar. verier; superl. veriest)  True; real; actual; veritable. "Whether thou be my very son Esau or not." "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." "The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness." "I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice." Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by same, self-same, itself, and the like. "The very hand, the very words." "The very rats instinctively have quit it." "Yea, there where very desolation dwells." Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag of the two?" "The veriest hermit in the nation." "He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood."
Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Very" Quotes from Famous Books



... a thrilling evening for Lydia, and she returned to the house at Cap Martin very tired, but very happy. She was seeing a new world, a world the like of which had never been revealed to her, and though she could have slept, and her head did nod in the car, she roused herself to talk it all over again with the ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace

... and gold too, all over him—like that!" She made a quick sweeping gesture which would seem to make Detricand a very spangle of buttons. "Come, what do you ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... before the true Plutonic zone, or that one in which there is no twilight whatsoever, even upon the shortest day of the year, can be said to have been entered by man. Of course, about the beginning and ending of this twilight, it is very feeble and easily extinguished by even the slightest mists, but nevertheless it exists, and is quite appreciable on clear cold days, or nights, properly speaking. The North Pole itself is only shrouded in ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various

... ago Dr. Klein of Cologne called attention to some very interesting types of crater-cones, which may be found on certain dark or smoky-grey areas on the moon. These, he considers, may probably represent active volcanic vents, and urges that they should be diligently ...
— The Moon - A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features • Thomas Gwyn Elger

... be set down here that there were no cannon in this unfinished portion of the fortification. The so-called rebellion against the king had broken out before this very necessary adjunct to the strength of the fort could be completed, and, consequently, it was the weakest portion of ...
— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com