True, real, actual.
He tried his very best.
The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.
With limiting effect: mere.
To a great extent or degree.
Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
(with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
He was the very best runner there.