The Clue
Actual (4 letter answer)
The Answer
VERY
Tags
Notes
The answer VERY is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.
Related Clues
Certainly
Complete
Damned
Darned
Especially
Exact
Exceedingly
To an extreme
Extremely
"___ funny!"
Intensely
Mucho
Quite
Selfsame
Truly
In a high degree
To a high degree
Jolly, to the British
Part of V.H.F.
Part of VHF
So so?
"The ___ Thought of You"
VHF part
V.I.P. section?
"___ funny. Ha, ha!"
More than a bit
More than a little
First part of an I.P. address?
Milne's "When We Were ___ Young"
Definition
VERY as an adjective:
1. precisely as stated; "the very center of town"
2. (identical, selfsame, very) = being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see"
VERY as an adverb:
1. (very, really, real, rattling) = used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
2. precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite"