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Adjective
- 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
- the very thing he said yesterday
- the very man I want to see
Adverb
- precisely so
- he expected the very opposite
- used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
- a really enjoyable evening