Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

precisely as stated

• “the very center of town”

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”

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”

precisely so

• “on the very next page”
• “he expected the very opposite”