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; Im real sorry about it; a rattling good yarn

[ Syn: really , really , real , real , rattling , rattling , really , really , real , real , rattling , rattling , really , really , real , real , rattling , rattling , really , really , real , real , rattling , rattling ]

precisely so; on the very next page; he expected the very opposite'

precisely as stated; the very center of town'

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

[ Syn: identical , selfsame ]