WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “VERY”

Okay.  Let me help you highlight your writing skill(s) and your thinking skills through this list of words.  They help to shorten a space, a sentence, and add attractive vigor to your works. You won’t know until you try using them.  Here we go….

• Very noisy                                      deafening
• Very often                                      frequently
• Very old                                          ancient
• Very old-fashioned                       archaic
• Very open                                       translucent
• Very painful                                   excruciating
• Very pale                                        ashen
• Very perfect                                   flawless
• Very Poor                                       destitute
• Very powerful                               compelling
• Very pretty                                     beautiful
• Very quick                                      rapid
• Very quiet                                       hushed
• Very rainy                                       pouring
• Very ruch                                        wealthy
• Very sad                                          sorrowful
• Very scared                                    petrified
• Very serious                                   grave
• Very sharp                                      keen
• Very shiny                                      gleaming
• Very short                                      brief
• Very shy                                         timid
• Very simple                                   basic

That’s enough for now, I suppose.  I’m sure your use of the single descriptive words will assist in your creative writings.

Enjoy!  A. K. Buckroth