very
/ˈvɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
adj
The same; identical.
Example Sentences
- "That dress is very you."
- "Not very many (of them) had been damaged."
- "She's so very similar to her mother."
- "‘Is she busy?’ ― ‘Not very.’"
- "In the end, the tickets didn't turn out so very expensive."
- "Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls."
Etymology
From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Distantly cognate with Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mæġen, sore, sin-, swīþe, (partially) wel.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈvɛɹi/