sheer

Meanings

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
• cause to sheer;
• "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
• "got the job through sheer persistence"
• "sheer stupidity"
• not mixed with extraneous elements;
• "sheer wine"
• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
• "a sheer descent of rock"
• so thin as to transmit light;
• "sheer silk stockings"
• straight up or down without a break
• directly;
• "he fell sheer into the water"
• SHEER adj SHEERER, SHEEREST of very thin texture SHEERLY adv
• SHEER v -ED, -ING, -S to swerve

Synonyms

• swerve
• curve
• trend
• veer
• slue
• slew
• cut
• absolute
• downright
• out-and-out
• rank
• right-down
• plain
• unmingled
• unmixed
• bluff
• bold
• diaphanous
• filmy
• gauzy
• gauze-like
• gossamer
• see-through
• transparent
• vaporous
• vapourous
• cobwebby
• perpendicularly

Scrabble Score: 8

sheer is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

sheer is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

sheer is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

sheer is a valid Words With Friends word

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