"avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do." - Dead Poets Society
I worked w/ a guy who was good at editing my manuscripts. His opinion (which I agree with) was that the word "very" was almost always superfluous. You can delete it without affecting your message.
Took me a while to see that very comes from veritas and doesn't mean much. At first I wrongly thought, I knew what the word means. Now I do know verily.