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Very works but it's missing out on an opportunity to give more detail.

Most of the adjectives in this app have multiple alternatives, one of which is likely closer to what you're trying to represent.

Or to put it another way: concepts like "smartness" are complicated and multidimensional. Someone who is "very smart" could be: good at their job, naturally intelligent, built up knowledge though experience and hard work, street-smart, smarter than average, smartest person in the world ever etc.

I wouldn't say there's always a better single word alternative to "very adjective" but it's worth thinking about when writing (and probably not worth thinking about in everyday speech!).




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