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.”