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(satellite adjective) used to give emphasis; "the very essence of artistic expression is invention"- Irving R. Kaufman; "the very back of the room" |
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(adverb) intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it"; `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn") |
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Synonyms: rattling, real, really |
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(satellite adjective) used to give emphasis to the relevance of the thing modified; "his very name struck terror"; "caught in the very act" |
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(adverb) precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" |
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(satellite adjective) precisely as stated; "the very center of town" |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: identical, one and the same, selfsame |
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