| indeed | | |
| adv. | 1. indeed, so | in truth (often tends to intensify).; "they said the car would break down and indeed it did"; "it is very cold indeed"; "was indeed grateful"; "indeed, the rain may still come"; "he did so do it!" |
| adv. | 2. indeed | (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc..; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!" |
| ~ irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. |
| indeed | | |
| quite | | |
| adv. | 1. quite, rather | to a degree (not used with a negative).; "quite tasty"; "quite soon"; "quite ill"; "quite rich" |
| adv. | 2. quite | to the greatest extent; completely.; "you're quite right"; "she was quite alone"; "was quite mistaken"; "quite the opposite"; "not quite finished"; "did not quite make it" |
| adv. | 3. quite, quite a, quite an | of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative).; "her victory was quite something"; "she's quite a girl"; "quite a film"; "quite a walk"; "we've had quite an afternoon" |
| adv. | 4. quite | actually or truly or to an extreme.; "was quite a sudden change"; "it's quite the thing to do"; "quite the rage"; "Quite so!" |
| surely | | |
| adv. | 1. certainly, for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely | definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely').; "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| very | | |
| adj. | 1. very | precisely as stated.; "the very center of town" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 2. identical, selfsame, very | 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" |
| ~ same | same in identity.; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street" |
| adv. | 3. rattling, real, really, very | 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"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" |
| adv. | 4. very | precisely so.; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" |
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