very
/ˈvɛɹi/ adjective B2- True, real, actual. · the fierce hatred of a very woman· the very blood and bone of our grammar
- The same; identical. · He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.· That's the very tool that I need.
- With limiting effect: mere. · The very idea of climbing the ladder brings me out in a sweat.· The very idea/thought!
Comparative verier · Superlative veriest
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Painted very clear and neat
And am very tired of it,
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