'Very' definitions:

Definition of 'very'

From: WordNet
adverb
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" [syn: very, really, real, rattling]
adverb
Precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite"
adjective
Precisely as stated; "the very center of town"
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" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)]

Definition of 'Very'

From: GCIDE
  • Very \Ver"y\ (v[e^]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. Verier (v[e^]r"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Veriest.] [OE. verai, verray, OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL. veracus, for L. verax true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin to OHG. & OS. w[=a]r, G. wahr, D. waar; perhaps originally, that is or exists, and akin to E. was. Cf. Aver, v. t., Veracious, Verdict, Verity.] True; real; actual; veritable. [1913 Webster]
  • Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. --Prov. xvii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 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." --Shak. "The very rats instinctively have quit it." --Shak. "Yea, there where very desolation dwells." --Milton. Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag of the two?" --Shak. "The veriest hermit in the nation." --Pope. "He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood." --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Very'

From: GCIDE
  • Very \Ver"y\ (v[e^]r"[y^]), 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. [1913 Webster] Very's night signals

Synonyms of 'very'

From: Moby Thesaurus