you also could adopt the word " totally". I am very tired.-----I am totally tired.

if you have shortage of synonyms and want your expression to be perceivably more sophisticated, you can use thesaurus. the synonyms of very as proposed by dictionary.com thesaurus are accessible at http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/very

Hi Min Maybe you could just leave it out of the sentence! Often it is simply used to add stress to something and it could easily be dropped without significantly changing the meaning of a sentence. There are some times when only 'very' will do, like "thank you very much" Other times, you could use an alternative, like "extremely", or "most"

Hi, here are some other ways of saying ' very' : real, exact, actual, appropriate, authentic, bare, bona fide, correct, especial, express, genuine, ideal, identical, indubitable, mere, model, perfect, plain, precise, pure, right, same, selfsame, sheer, simple, special, sure-enough, true, undoubted, unqualified, unquestionable, veritable.

One little example along with others: It is very dangerous - it is too dangerous