very

  • (adjective): True, real, actual.
  • (adjective): The same; identical.
  • (adjective): With limiting effect: mere.
  • (adverb): To a great extent or degree.
  • (adverb): Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
  • (adverb): (with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
  • He tried his very best.
  • He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.
  • Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
  • He was the very best runner there.