Usually means: Emphasizes degree of adjective, adverb.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word very:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. very: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Very, very, very: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. very: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. very: Collins English Dictionary
  5. very: Vocabulary.com
  6. Very, very, very, very, very: Wordnik
  7. very: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. very: Wiktionary
  9. very: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. very: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. very: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. very: Dictionary.com
  13. very: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. very: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Very (Martian crater), Very (Pet Shop Boys album), Very (online retailer), Very: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Very: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. very: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. very: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. very: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. very: Free Dictionary
  21. very: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. very: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. very: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. very: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. very: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. very: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. very: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (literary) 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.

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