Definitions for sheer

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IPA: /ʃɪər/

Sheer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in sheer (eehrs).

Definitions for sheer

noun

1. a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile.
2. a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve.
3. Shipbuilding. the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of a vessel at the main deck or bulwarks.
4. Nautical. the position in which a ship at anchor is placed to keep it clear of the anchor.

adverb

1. clear; completely; quite:
2. perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply.

adjective

1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics:
2. unmixed with anything else:
3. unqualified; utter:
4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical:
5. British Obsolete. bright; shining.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to sheer.
2. Shipbuilding. to give sheer to (a hull).

verb (used without object)

1. to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve.

Origin of sheer

1175-1225; Middle English scere, shere, schere free, clear, bright, thin; probably Old Norse skǣrr; change of sk- > s(c)h- perhaps by influence of the related Old English scīr (E dial. shi

Examples for sheer

I laughed out of sheer inanity; every pulse in my body was throbbing.

The Met is noteworthy not only for its house size, however, but for the sheer volume of its season.

It was as if she found in sheer activity and fatigue a remedy for her uneasiness.

Mary stood silent for a moment from sheer amazement over the change.

Even Godzilla, the ugliest star attraction of them all, is bigger than ever, both at the box office and in sheer monstrous height.

If nothing else, the sheer size of the “religious liberty” movement indicates its seriousness of purpose.

On them it is forced from without, by sheer pressure of circumstance.

The next 10 times after that, the sheer repetition made it funny again, like the famous Simpsons rake joke.

Actors can inhabit the person through the sheer force of their assimilation.

To all the generations before our own matter was a sheer and positive density.