Words to use instead of 'VERY' Lists of Words You Can Use Instead of “Very”
Very” is vague, weak and boring. People often use “very” as a lazy replacement for a more appropriate word.
Avoid the word “very” because it’s weak and vague. They were right, and many times, we use “very” as a modifier for a word that could easily be replaced with a stronger, more accurate word. These collection tells you what to use instead.
It's very good. That said, it gets used very, very, very frequently, and that can become very repetitive and very boring very quickly. Not all of these words are perfect (many pedants have already pointed out that "exact" is not really an exact replacement for "very accurate"). Not all of them will fit your needs, but if you write a lot and want to avoid sounding dull and generic, this list will be very useful to you.
Examples:
Very” is vague, weak and boring. People often use “very” as a lazy replacement for a more appropriate word.
Avoid the word “very” because it’s weak and vague. They were right, and many times, we use “very” as a modifier for a word that could easily be replaced with a stronger, more accurate word. These collection tells you what to use instead.
It's very good. That said, it gets used very, very, very frequently, and that can become very repetitive and very boring very quickly. Not all of these words are perfect (many pedants have already pointed out that "exact" is not really an exact replacement for "very accurate"). Not all of them will fit your needs, but if you write a lot and want to avoid sounding dull and generic, this list will be very useful to you.
Examples:
Very angry furious
Very bad atrocious/awful
Very beautiful exquisite
Very big immense / massive/enormous
Very capable accomplished
Very clever brilliant
Very cold freezing
Very old ancient
Very poor destitute
Very quiet silent/hushed
Very roomy spacious
Very rude vulgar
Very serious solemn/grave
Very dirty squalid/filthy
Very fast quick
Very good superb/great
Very happy jubilant / elated
Very hot scalding
Very hungry ravenous / starving/ famished
Very large colossal
Very lively vivacious
Very loved adored
Very wise sagacious
Very wicked villainous
Very weak feeble
Very valuable precious
Very tired exhausted
Very tasty delicious
Very stupid idiotic
Very strong unyielding
Very small tiny
Very worried anxious
Very shocking appalling
Very sad devastated/sorrowful
Very pretty gorgeous / beautiful
Very funny hysterical
Very bright dazzling
Very clean spotless/ immaculate
Very noisy deafening
Very creative innovative
Very short brief
Very confused perplexed
Very cute adorable
Very crowded bustling
Very accurate exact
Very excited thrilled
Very slow sluggish
Very loud thunderous
Very annoying exasperating
Very afraid terrified
Very eager keen
Very rich wealthy
Very talented gifted
Very powerful compelling
Very perfect flawless
Very quick rapid
Very scared petrified
Very rainy pouring
Very open transparent
Very pale ashen
Very scary chilling
Very painful excruciating
Very often frequently
Very fat obese
Very simple basic
Very shy timid
Very shiny gleaming
Very sharp keen
Very little tiny
Very hot boiling
Very nasty dreadful
Very unusual extraordinary
Very cheerful hilarious
Very funny ridiculous
Very expensive priceless
Very important essential
Very dangerous perilous
Very competitive cutthroat
Very perfect/ideal impeccable
Very old fashioned archaic
In perfect condition pristine
Adjectives in English divided into two parts:
Base adjectives
It's the basic of English adjectives and to make the base adjectives more strong we use the word 'very'
Strong adjectives=Very + base adjectives
Fantastic = Very good
Strong adjectives
Instead of using the word 'very' with base adjectives we use strong adjectives. We can't use 'very' with strong adjectives but use
' absolutely ' to exaggerate of describing the adjective.
Very good
Not
Very fantastic
But
Absolutely fantastic
We can use the word 'really' with base
adjectives and strong adjectives.
Ex:
She is really bad. Her speech was really terrible.
Very bad atrocious/awful
Very beautiful exquisite
Very big immense / massive/enormous
Very capable accomplished
Very clever brilliant
Very cold freezing
Very old ancient
Very poor destitute
Very quiet silent/hushed
Very roomy spacious
Very rude vulgar
Very serious solemn/grave
Very dirty squalid/filthy
Very fast quick
Very good superb/great
Very happy jubilant / elated
Very hot scalding
Very hungry ravenous / starving/ famished
Very large colossal
Very lively vivacious
Very loved adored
Very wise sagacious
Very wicked villainous
Very weak feeble
Very valuable precious
Very tired exhausted
Very tasty delicious
Very stupid idiotic
Very strong unyielding
Very small tiny
Very worried anxious
Very shocking appalling
Very sad devastated/sorrowful
Very pretty gorgeous / beautiful
Very funny hysterical
Very bright dazzling
Very clean spotless/ immaculate
Very noisy deafening
Very creative innovative
Very short brief
Very confused perplexed
Very cute adorable
Very crowded bustling
Very accurate exact
Very excited thrilled
Very slow sluggish
Very loud thunderous
Very annoying exasperating
Very afraid terrified
Very eager keen
Very rich wealthy
Very talented gifted
Very powerful compelling
Very perfect flawless
Very quick rapid
Very scared petrified
Very rainy pouring
Very open transparent
Very pale ashen
Very scary chilling
Very painful excruciating
Very often frequently
Very fat obese
Very simple basic
Very shy timid
Very shiny gleaming
Very sharp keen
Very little tiny
Very hot boiling
Very nasty dreadful
Very unusual extraordinary
Very cheerful hilarious
Very funny ridiculous
Very expensive priceless
Very important essential
Very dangerous perilous
Very competitive cutthroat
Very perfect/ideal impeccable
Very old fashioned archaic
In perfect condition pristine
Adjectives in English divided into two parts:
Base adjectives
It's the basic of English adjectives and to make the base adjectives more strong we use the word 'very'
Strong adjectives=Very + base adjectives
Fantastic = Very good
Strong adjectives
Instead of using the word 'very' with base adjectives we use strong adjectives. We can't use 'very' with strong adjectives but use
' absolutely ' to exaggerate of describing the adjective.
Very good
Not
Very fantastic
But
Absolutely fantastic
We can use the word 'really' with base
adjectives and strong adjectives.
Ex:
She is really bad. Her speech was really terrible.
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