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Sheer   /ʃɪr/   Listen
Sheer

adjective
1.
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down.  "An absolute dimwit" , "A downright lie" , "Out-and-out mayhem" , "An out-and-out lie" , "A rank outsider" , "Many right-down vices" , "Got the job through sheer persistence" , "Sheer stupidity"
2.
Not mixed with extraneous elements.  Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed.  "Sheer wine" , "Not an unmixed blessing"
3.
Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front.  Synonyms: bluff, bold.  "Where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise" , "A sheer descent of rock"
4.
So thin as to transmit light.  Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous.  "Filmy wings of a moth" , "Gauzy clouds of dandelion down" , "Gossamer cobwebs" , "Sheer silk stockings" , "Transparent chiffon" , "Vaporous silks"
verb
(past & past part. sheered; pres. part. sheering)
1.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
2.
Cause to sheer.
adverb
1.
Straight up or down without a break.  Synonym: perpendicularly.
2.
Directly.





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"Sheer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tale of these early years should assume so controversial a tone. But where all, or almost all, is sheer conjecture, it is inevitable that the narrative must rest rather on argument than fact. The precise moment when Claverhouse transferred his services from the French to the Dutch flag is, in truth, ...
— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
... lack of material, but from sheer want of breath. She would have been invincible in conversation but for that fatal constitutional infirmity—shortness of breath. This brought her to a pause in the full ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... Chancellor. "Sheer spring madness. You would carry her off, I dare say, and hide yourselves at the end of a ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... enraged and engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through sheer fatigue. ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... well educated, and at the same time so simple and childishly devoted to old, plain Martha. She had never read letters like the mother's letter to her son, so beautiful, affectionate and elevating. He had always read them to her, and she had had to cry every time from sheer emotion. She had never before seen as beautiful linen as the boy had worn, and it had all been ...
— Cornelli • Johanna Spyri


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