very

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
    

• precisely as stated
  • the very center of town
    

Adverb

• precisely so
  • on the very next page
    
  • he expected the very opposite
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  identical , selfsame(a) , very(a) , really , real , rattling