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Very vs Wery - What's the difference?

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Wery is a alternative form of very.



As adjectives the difference between very and wery

is that very is true, real, actual while wery is eye dialect of lang=en.

As adverbs the difference between very and wery

is that very is to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly while wery is eye dialect of lang=en.

very

English

(wikipedia very)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • True, real, actual.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xxvii. 21
  • *:whether thou be my very son Esau or not
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}
  • The same; identical.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
  • With limiting effect: mere.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:We have many examples in our daies, yea in very children, of such as for feare of some slight incommoditie have yeelded unto death.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • True, truly.
  • :

    • Usage notes

    * When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs.

    Synonyms

    * (to a great extent) ever so, (l) (dialectal), (l) (archaic), (l) (dialectal)

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    Anagrams

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    wery

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=176 , passage='Wery',' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a ' wery bad 'un,' says my father.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author=William Burton , title=Burton's comic songster citation , page=59 , passage=There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1844 , author=Lawrence Ladree , title=Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post citation , page=25 , passage=It was jest sich a night as this— wery' cold — '''wery'''. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's '''wery''' cloudy — '''wery'''. ... I come and stood on this 'ere ' wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=85 , passage='Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , author=Walter Rye , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=144 , passage=... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1903 , author=Charles Longman , title=Longman's magazine, Vol. 41 citation , page=232 , passage='Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'}}