Listen, I'm too very exhausted to read this very lengthy, and very tedious list.

Listen, I'm fatigued beyond imagination and incapable of reading this prosaic litany of mundane drivel.

"Hmmm you're very dirty 😏"

"Hmmm you're filthy 😏"

"That you are able to take responsibility for your your mistakes is very big of you."

"That you are able to take responsibility for your your mistakes is huge of you."

Nope, not the same.

It is definitely not a grammatical issue, but it a good rule of thumb for writing, particularly academic writing. One of the first things that was drilled into me as an English major was to drop, "very," and find a better adjective.

Also, yeah, a lot of these are very poor matches, especially without context, but one of my favorite things about the English language is that it is a very large, redundant language, but none of our words have the exact same connotation. Big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic, tremendous, mammoth, gargantuan, and humongous are all technically synonyms, but all conjure different images in the reader.

But yeah, telling someone to say, "fragile," instead of, "very weak," is dumb, given they could mean, "delicate," or, "feeble." And if you're not writing a term paper, just say, "very."

Yeah, "idle" is much milder than "very lazy" imo

Doesn't matter, it's a very useful list to counter tik-tok brain damage.

Very true. Grammar is a lovely old woman.

I've never been too interested in Australia, but after becoming the world's foremost expert on Bluey, I'm starting to like it more and more. May have to visit one day.

The shitpost was that we both wasted our time

Verily

Very tiny. Very exhausted.

*Intriguing.

You're very welcome.

veruseful

Handy

You bounced on your boy's very hard very long to this until he very loud very full?

You saucy minx!

Very astute.

Mmm I've definitely heard ancient used similarly to very old. E.g mice with balls are ancient technology.

Indolent.

Kinda, kinda not. To me, idle means "not doing anything at the moment", e.g. "standing idly by", which is definitely different than "very lazy".

It's an older use, to the point that I've never heard it used. Merriam marks that definition as "old-fashioned" (which is a bit odd, because I thought they only used the archaic or obsolete terms).

The lazy sense is probably what's meant from the old bible quote about "idle hands" related to the devil.

*I'm hard

My stomach and mind both

Gimungous

Huge - > enormous - > humongous - > gigantic - > massive - > supermassive - > your mom

Veraiously?

Can I interest you in strongful?

I'd say the humorous way very is used in children's books is somehow lost as they transition from kid to teenager or so, but the use of the word sticks around. I wonder why that is.