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Let's not use 'Very'

The document provides a list of phrases that use 'very' followed by an adjective, along with a corresponding more descriptive adjective. Each phrase is paired with a single word that conveys a similar meaning but with greater intensity or specificity. This serves as a resource for enhancing vocabulary by replacing common modifiers with more precise terms.

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Let's not use 'Very'

The document provides a list of phrases that use 'very' followed by an adjective, along with a corresponding more descriptive adjective. Each phrase is paired with a single word that conveys a similar meaning but with greater intensity or specificity. This serves as a resource for enhancing vocabulary by replacing common modifiers with more precise terms.

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Phrase Adjective

very creative innovative


very crowded bustling
very cute adorable
very dangerous threatening
very dark lightless
very dear cherished
very realistic practical
very rich wealthy
very risky perilous
very deep profound
very beautiful exquisite
very bright luminous
very accurate exact
very afraid terrified
very angry furious
very bad atrocious
very busy overloaded
very calm serene
very careful cautious
very charmed mesmerized
very cheap stingy
very clean spotless
very clever brilliant
very cold freezing
very colorful vibrant
very compete comprehensive
very competitive cutthroat
very confused perplexed
very conventional conservative
very core gist
very depressed despondent
very detailed meticulous
very big immense
very boring dull
very brave courageous
very dull tedious
very eager keen
very easy smooth
very empty desolate
very evil wicked
very excited thrilled
very willing eager
very windy blustery
very fancy lavish
very far away distant
very fast quick
very fat obese
very fierce relentless
very fond attached
very fortunate blessed
very friendly affectionate
very funny hilarious
very different disparate
very difficult challenging
very disagreeable obnoxious
very distressing dreadful
very dry parched
very glad overjoyed
very good excellent
very greedy impatient
very happy ecstatic
very hard difficult
very hard-to-find rare
very high soaring
very huge colossal
very exciting exhilarating
very expensive costly
very humble courteous
very interesting fascinating
very jolly carefree
very kind considerate
very large huge
very lazy indolent
very light luminous
very gracefully lithely
very great terrific
very limited finite
very little tiny
very lively animated
very long extensive
very long-term enduring
very hungry starving
very hurt battered/crushed
very important crucial
very inexpensive cheap
very loose slack
very loud deafening
very smelly pungent
very smooth sleek
very soft downy
very scared petrified
very loved adored
very lovely stunning
very mean cruel
very messy slovenly
very much enough
very neat immaculate
very necessary essential
very nervous apprehensive
very nice kind
very noisy deafening
very painful excruciating
very pale ashen
very perfect flawless
very pleasant amiable
very poor destitute/underprivileged
very powerful compelling
very pretty beautiful
very protective defensive
very proud honored
very numerous diverse
very often frequently
very old ancient
very open transparent
very quick rapid
very quiet silent
very raining pouring
very rainy drizzly
very roomy spacious
very sad sorrowful
very shy timid
very simple basic
very skinny skeletal
very sleepy lethargic
very slow sluggish
very serious grave
very sharp keen
very shiny gleaming
very short brief
very strong unyielding
very stupid idiotic
very sure certain
very talented gifted
very tall towering
very tasty delicious
very thin gaunt
very valuable precious
very warm hot
very weak frail
very wet soaked
very tight constricting
very tired exhausted
very ugly hideous
very sorry apologetic
very special exceptional
very unhappy miserable
very upset distraught
very wicked villainous
very wise sage
very worried distressed

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