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sheer

1  [sheer] adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun
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–adjective
1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
2. unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock.
3. unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense.
4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock.
5. British Obsolete. bright; shining.
–adverb
6. clear; completely; quite: ran sheer into the thick of battle.
7. perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply.
–noun
8. a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME scere, shere, schere free, clear, bright, thin; prob. < ON skǣrr; change of sk- > s(c)h- perh. by influence of the related OE scīr (E dial. shire clear, pure, thin); c. G schier, ON skīr, Goth skeirs clear; see shine

Related forms:
sheerly, adverb
sheerness, noun

Synonyms:
2. mere, simple, pure, unadulterated. 3. absolute, downright. 4. abrupt, precipitous. 6. totally, entirely.

Antonyms:
1. opaque.
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sheer 2   (shîr)   
adj.   sheer·er, sheer·est

  1. Thin, fine, and transparent: sheer curtains; sheer chiffon. See Synonyms at airy.

    1. Completely such, without qualification or exception: sheer stupidity; sheer happiness.

    2. Free from admixture or adulterants; unmixed: sheer alcohol. See Synonyms at pure.

    3. Considered or operating apart from anything else: got the job through sheer persistence.

  3. Almost perpendicular; steep: sheer rock cliffs. See Synonyms at steep1.

adv.  

  1. Almost perpendicularly.

  2. Completely; altogether.


[Obsolete shere, thin, clear, partly from Middle English shir, bright, clear (from Old English scīr) and partly from Middle English skir, bright, clean (from Old Norse skærr).]
sheer'ly adv., sheer'ness n.
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