very

To a great extent or degree.

• That dress is very you.
• Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
• She's so very similar to her mother.

Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

• He was the very best runner there.
• This is my very own treehouse.

True, real, actual.

• the fierce hatred of a very woman
• the very blood and bone of our grammar
• He tried his very best.

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.
• The very man I wanted to see!

With limiting effect: mere.

• The very idea of climbing the ladder brings me out in a sweat.
• The very idea/thought!