sheer
IPA: ʃˈɪr
noun
- A sheer curtain or fabric.
- (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
- (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
- A surname.
verb
- (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
- Obsolete spelling of shear [To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.]
adjective
- (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
- (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
- Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
- Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
adverb
- (archaic) Clean; completely; at once.
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Examples of "sheer" in Sentences
- We don't have a lot of what we call sheer in the atmosphere, either.
- There you can see what we call a sheer marker where that little spin is.
- Now that's what I call sheer perfection : Thanks for the recipe, Nandita!
- The Messenger Bag Director's Chair is what you call sheer portability, if not innovation.
- Callie walked slowly in a direct line to her mother, her hands on her hips, her expression sheer disappointment.
- Later, after they had picked up their children at nursery school and taken them home to nap, two of the women cried, in sheer relief, just to know they were not alone.
- Ambinder also mentioned what he described as sheer coincidence, that he himself got married in the District last weekend to his longtime partner, a business consultant.
- On the one hand, Mr. Wood wrote, it allowed the writer to “revel in sheer storytelling,” and on the other to “undermine, ironically, the very ‘truths’ and simplicities his apparently unsophisticated narrators traded in.”
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