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very
Synonyms and Antonyms of very
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being one and not another
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being this and no more
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existing in fact and not merely as a possibility
attested, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, valid, validated, verified
incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inescapable, irrefutable, undeniable, unquestionable
believable, convincing, literal, realistic, unmistakable, verifiable
authentic, bona fide, real-life, real-world
absolute, certain, final, hard, objective, palpable, positive, substantial, tangible
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having no exceptions or restrictions
absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter
Synonym Discussion of very
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- took the same route
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- derived from the selfsame source
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- the very point I was trying to make
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- identical results
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- two houses equivalent in market value
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- equal shares in the business
very
Synonyms and Antonyms of very
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to a great degree
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly
exceptionally, notably, remarkably
considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially
appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly
astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally
a lot, as all get-out, good and
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in actual fact
in actuality, in reality, in truth
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