Sheer

Definition: Sheer

Sheer

Adjective

1. Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "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; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing".

3. Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock".

4. So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks".

Adverb

1. Straight up or down without a break.

2. Directly; "he fell sheer into the water".

Verb

1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right".

2. Cause to sheer: "She sheered her car around the obstacle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sheer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Industry

Language

Transportation

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Synonyms: Sheer

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Completeness

Regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free; abundant; (sufficient).

Recession

Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid).

Simpleness

Adjective: simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat.

Smallness

Mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.

Crosswords: Sheer

Manx (shire ), Portuguese (sheer).

It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Sheer ingenuity (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers)

You were overpowered by the extravagance of sound, the sheer weight of volume (Scott Joplin; writing credit: Christopher Knopf)

I will forever miss him. His courage inspired us; his sheer warmed us; and his grace made our troubles insignificant (The Ryan White Story; writing credit: Phil Penningroth;)

To suggest that we can learn anything about the simian nature from a study of man is sheer nonsense (Planet of the Apes; writing credit: Pierre Boulle; Michael Wilson)

Sheer Sport (1969)

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References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Sheer, Plain Hosiery in Asia (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Sheer Hosiery (reference)

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Books

• Larry Ellison: Sheer Nerve (Techies) (reference)

• Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrewnce (reference)

• Sheer Honesty (Silhouette Romance No. 469) (reference)

• Sheer Joy: Conversations With Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (reference)

• Sheer Necessity (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Sheer Heaven (reference)

• Sheer Madness (reference)

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Music

• Sheer Plucks: Contemporary Solo Guitar Works (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Drapes with Stars - Ecru Sheer (reference)

• Sheer Drapes - Whirligig (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Akpatok Island lies in Ungava Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Accessible only by air, Akpatok Island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs that soar 500 to 800 feet (150 to 243km) above the sea surface. The island is an important sanctuary for cliff-nesting seabirds. Numerous ice floes around the island attract walrus and whales, making Akpatok a traditional hunting ground for native Inuit people. Credit: NASA.

Packing to the top - sheer fortitude kept him going Triangulation party of William M. Scaife Upper Cook Inlet to Fairbanks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The sheer size of the Grand Canyon is breathtaking. Credit: Bette Ariel.

View looking south from Building # 1, showing the trophy gun park in the foreground, with coal piles and the sheer crane beyond, circa 1866-69. Most of the guns visible are former Confederate pieces, many of which were still on exhibit at the Washington Navy Yard in the year 2001. The monitors Mahopac (center) and Saugus (right) are laid up in the Anacostia River, in the background, with their turrets still painted as they were in 1864-65. Courtesy of Robert A. Truax, 1978. Credit: NAVY.

Alongside the Sheer Wharf at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, circa 1910-1913. Credit: NAVY.

Wreck of USS Chauncey (DD-296) near shore, during salvage operations some time after 8 September 1923, when she went aground on Honda Point with six other destroyers. Sheer legs are rigged atop her galley deckhouse to assist in removing items from the ship. Her midships 4"/50 guns have already been sent ashore. The wreck of USS Woodbury (DD-309) is in the middle distance. Photographed by Sever. Credit: NAVY.

Photograph of the Machina Wharf, looking south from the roof of Building 24, 1900. Sheer legs are at left, by the small ship alongside the wharf. Note the sunken Spanish gunboat Marques Del Duero (1875-1898) in the right background. Credit: NAVY.

Tied up at the Sheer Wharf, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa 1876, after she was reconstructed. Note the sheer legs on the wharf, and the sterns of USS Wabash and USS Ohio at the left. Credit: NAVY.

The Pulpit Rock near Stavanger in Norway's fjord country has a sheer drop of 1800 feet into the Lyse fjord. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lemhi County, Idaho. Sheer cliffs rise from the road along Williams Creek. Credit: Library of Congress.

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According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. (reference)

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He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope with the terrible lonely isolation, the nightmares, the failure of all his attempts at horticulture, and the sheer futurelessness and futility of his life here on prehistoric Earth, which was that he would go mad.

He had a reputation for recoiling from nothing, and they knew that he had plundered, from sheer bravado, a police station

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Business

Within the aerospace industry, aluminum usage continues to grow rapidly due to the sheer volume of aircraft production. (references)

Asymmetric necklines, three-quarter length sleeves, fitted shirts as a jacket; puffed sleeves, drawstring tops as layering pieces, tube tops, funnel necks, and the layering of sheer cotton T-shirts, tunics. (references)

However, over the last few years there have been signs that E&T institutions in Vietnam are failing to keep pace. They are being overwhelmed by the sheer number of students and workers in need of services and struggling to adapt both facilities and curriculum to the rapidly changing demands of an economy in transition and a workforce playing “catch-up” in one of the world’s most competitive regions. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

Sheer, jagged cliffs rise from the sea on several of the mountainous islands. (references)

Zimbabwe

Providing gutting of the sector does not occur from bad government actions, policies or sheer neglect, manufacturing has the ability to lead the country towards dynamic real growth in an outward-oriented recovery. (references)

El Salvador

The sheer amount of projects in the pipeline, the good reputation of U.S. firms, and the tendency to form joint ventures or subcontract out large portions of major projects, assures a strong market for U.S. companies in this sector. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Resource constraints and the sheer magnitude of the problem limit states' ability to enforce child labor legislation. (references)

HAITI

In the few cases where the government has attempted to control prices or supplies, its efforts were frequently undercut by contraband or overwhelmed by the sheer number of small retailers. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "sheer": by sheer force ♦ deck sheer ♦ it is sheer impossibility ♦ it is sheer nonsense ♦ sheer away ♦ sheer batten ♦ sheer boom ♦ sheer cliff ♦ sheer draught ♦ sheer from ♦ sheer hulk ♦ sheer legs ♦ sheer log ♦ sheer off ♦ sheer plan ♦ sheer pole ♦ sheer strake ♦ that's sheer nonsense ♦ To break sheer ♦ To sheer off ♦ To sheer up. Additional references.

Beginning with "sheer": sheer-drop, sheer-legs, sheer-sided.

Ending with "sheer": Plank-sheer.

Albanian

tërësisht (all, altogether, at large, completely, entirely, fully, heartily, holus-bolus, outright, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, wholly), plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, hollow, large, neck and crop, out and out, outright, perfectly, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, wide, widely), i tejdukshëm (clear, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, lucid, pellucid, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, vitreous), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i dukshëm (apparent, appreciable, conspicuous, discernible, distinct, evidence, evident, in evidence, manifest, marked, memorable, mere, naked, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, outward, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, pointed, prominent, rank, salient, self-explanatory, sensible, simple, speaking, substantial, telling, thorough-paced, transparent, unconcealed, unqualified, visible), absolut (absolute, all-rounder, complete, direct, irrelative, perfect, plenary, total, utter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنحرف السفينة, ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклонение от курса (sag), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), прозрачен (bright, clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid, peek-a-boo, pellucid, see through, transparent, white), прозрачна материя, пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), абсолютен (absolute, implicit, irrelative, perfect, plenary, plenipotentiary, profound, rank, sovereign, unconditioned, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, veriest), много стръмен (perpendicular, precipitatious), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), отбягвам (avoid, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, fence, give a wide berth, put by, shrink back, shrink from, shun, sidestep, taboo), изцяло (all, altogether, clean, en bloc, entirely, in full, neck and crop, outright, over, right, through, through and through, totally, tread and thrum, whole-hog, wholly), отвесно (apeak, upright), същински (arrant, positive, proper, pure, rank, real, regular, simple, veritable, very), отклонявам се от курса (bag, pay off, sag, yaw), очевиден (apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, conspicuous, demonstrable, evident, manifest, marked, noticeable, obvious, open and shut, palpable, patent, self evident, self-apparent, self-explanatory, stark, transparent, unmistakable, visible), тънка материя (gossamer), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), фин (dainty, delicate, distinguished, exquisite, fine, nice, recherche, refined), цял (cool, entire, full, good, intact, integral, integrate, livelong, overall, perfect, regular, right, round, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabridged, unbroken, undivided, whole), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), явен (apparent, blazing, decided, declared, distinct, downright, evident, Frank, glaring, manifest, marked, noticeable, obvious, open, ostensible, outright, overt, palpable, patent, plain, Plumb, pointed, professed, pronounced, rank, self-explanatory, thumping, transparent, unconcealed, unmistakable, visible), стръмно (abruptly), отвесен (abrupt, normal, perpendicular, precipitatious, up and down, upright, vertical). (various references)

Chinese 

纯粹 (unmitigated), 純屬 (outright, pure and simple). (various references)

Czech

velmi jemný, přímo (at firsthand, direct, directly, nonstop, non-stop, outright, Plumb, point blank, right, roundly, straight, straight away), příkrý (abrupt, brusque, harsh, prone, stark, steep, violent), naprosto (absolutely, altogether, dead, entirely, flat, fully, heartily, perfectly, quite, to the hilt, totally, utterly), naprostý (absolute, bloody, complete, dead, downright, entire, full, outright, perfect, positive, rank, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, unconditional, unmitigated, utter), kolmý (Plumb, upright, vertical), úplnì (absolutely, all, altogether, completely, entirely, in full, off, outright, quite, throughout, to the hilt, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly), èirý (downright, limpid, pure, unadulterated). (various references)

Danish

spring (jump, leap), skære ud (cut out, take a yaw), voile (poil, poil silk, single silk, single yarn, singles, voile), batist (batiste, cambric, lawn), afgrund (abyss, chasm, gulf, precipice). (various references)

Dutch

steile rotswand (escarpment, precipice, scarp), zeeglijn (deck sheer), zeeg (camber, deck sheer), gieren (cry out, fertilize, scream, shout, skid, whistle), afgrond (abyss, chasm, gulf, jaws, maw, precipice). (various references)

Farsi 

کناررفتن , بطورعمود, بکلی (Quite, Throughout, Utterly), ظریف (Capillary, Delicate, Slender), راست (Bolt, Erect, Prick, Right, Straight, Straightforward, True, Upright, Wooden), انحراف حاصل کردن , خالص (Absolute, Downright, Genuine, Heartfelt, Limpid, Net, Pure, Unadulterated, Unalloyed), برگشتن (Backslide, Comeback, Rebound, Recrudesce, Retroflex, Return, Revert, Topple, Untread), حریری (Silken), یک راست , کنارزدن (Pullover), مطلق (Absolute, Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Implicit, Positive, Slick, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Unrestrained, Utter), مستقیما (Bolt, Perse, Straight), محض (Downright, Mere, Only, Strict), پارچه ظریف , پاک (Clean, Good, Kosher, Pure, Stark), صرف (Accident, Etymology, Expenditure, Stark). (various references)

Finnish

sula (fluid, liquid, melted, molten, not frozen), silkka (pure), poiketa suunnasta (take a yaw), pelkkä (mere, nothing but, pure), mutkailla (take a yaw), kansinotkos (deck sheer), jyrkänparras (precipice), jyrkänne (bluff, precipice), ajautua suunnasta (take a yaw). (various references)

French

transparent, tout à fait, tonture (deck sheer), pur, précipice, faire une embardée (to sheer), faire des lacets, extra-fin, embarder (to sheer), embardée, absolu, abruptement, abrupt, à pic. (various references)

German

bloß (alone, bare, exclusively, just, mere, merely, naked, nude, only, pure, purely, simply, sole, solely, solitary, very), schier (almost, nearly, pure, skis, stark, unadulterated), rein (absolutely, chaste, chastely, clean, cleanly, clear, genuine, honest, immaculate, immaculately, mere, outright, perfect, plain, pure, purely, rank, raw, refined, sheerly, stark, straight, sweet, true, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncorrupt, undefiled, undiluted, unvarnished, virgin, virginal). (various references)

Greek 

γκρεμός (cliff, precipice), απότομος (abrupt, blunt, brusque, steep, steep (hill)), απόλυτοσ (absolute, absolutist, categorical, dead, perfect, plenary, strict, unconditional, unqualified, utter), απόκρημνος (steep), λοξοδρομώ (detour, sheer off, sidestep, swerve), λοξοδρόμηση (aberration, detour), λεπτότατοσ (superfine), εντελώσ (altogether, clear, completely, entirely, in toto, outright, quite, stark, tout a fait), διαφανήσ (clear, diaphanous, limpid, pellucid, translucent, transparent), κρημνώρεια (escarpment, precipice), στροφική οριζόντια κίνηση (take a yaw), σιμότητα σκάφους (deck sheer), καθαρός (aboveboard, clean, clear, utter), καθαρόσ (blank, clean, cleanly, clear, cloudless, neat, net, plain, pure, smokeless, spick and span), κατακόρυφοσ (scarp, stud, vertical), καμπυλότητα σκάφους (deck sheer), κρημνός (precipice), παροιακίζω (take a yaw, to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוחלט (absolute, categorical, certain, decided, definite, downright, outright, positive, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter), מאונך (orthogonal, perpendicular, upright, vertical), לפנות הצידה, תלול (high, lofty, precipitous, sharp, sloping, steep), גמור (absolute, complete, completion, concluded, conclusion, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, out and out, outright, perfect, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, utter, very), טהור (absolute, abstersion, catharsis, cleaning up, cleansing, decontamination, pure, purgation, purge, purification, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed). (various references)

Hungarian

teljesen (absolutely, all, altogether, at all, clean, completely, consummately, entirely, from hub to tire up to the hub, full, fully, have sy by the leg, I am done to a frazzle, in full, it's all over with him, out and out, outright, perfectly, purely, quite, regularly, stark, starkly, thoroughly, through and through, to serve sy hand and foot, to the full, to write out, totally, utterly, wholly), hamisítatlan (of the first water, proper, pure, simon-pure, unadulterated, unmitigated, unsophisticated). (various references)

Indonesian

tipis (marginal, thin), terjal (abrupt, steepy). (various references)

Italian

puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, dignified, maiden, maidenly, mere, neat, pristine, pure, sinless, sterling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

醇乎たる (pure), 純然たる (absolute, complete, pure, utter), 単なる (mere, simple). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんなる (mere, simple), じゅんぜんたる (absolute, complete, pure, utter), じゅんこたる (pure). (various references)

Korean 

투명한 (Glassy, transparent). (various references)

Manx

ughtee (bluff, bluff of coast, sloping upwards), slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, inviolate, perfect, sane, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, utter, well, whole), magh as magh (downright, exceptionally, thorough, to the full, utterly), glen (chaste, clean, clear, clearcut, cloudless, downright, emphatic, fair, flat, flat of refusal, fresh-coloured, hygienic, liquidate, nett, peremptory, pure, to a T, unclouded, unclouded of vision, undefiled), feer (authentic, correct, exceptionally, extremely, pure, real, regular, sincere, true, truthful, veritable, very), croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, spring, suspension, swing). (various references)

Pig Latin

eershay.(various references)

Portuguese

simples (artless, chaste, classic, classical, convenient, easy, frugal, green, guileless, homely, homespun, humble, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, matter-of-course, mere, modest, natural, onefold, outage, plain, primary, pure, regular, self-effacing, shirt-sleeve, simple, simple-hearted, single, singles, smattering, soft, sole, solitary, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, unlaboured, unostentatious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, unworldly), sheer, sem mistura (unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended), guinada (lurch, yaw), alcantil (precipice), arrufo (tiff), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole), dar guinadas (take a yaw), descascado, desvio do curso, diáfano (diaphanous, pellucid, transparent, transpicuous), absoluto (absolute, implicit, outright, total, unconditional, unmitigated, utter), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, select, sharp, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well-bred, well-made, wispy), vestido transparente, guinar (yaw), precipício (abyss, chasm, gulf, linn, precipice), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), tosamento do casco (deck sheer), total (absolute, all out, all-out, all-purpose, amount, entire, entirety, gross, integer, number, outright, overall, plenary, run-down, sum, summation, teetotal, through and through, tot, total, universal, utter, whole), finamente tecido. (various references)

Romanian

veritabil (authentic, genuine, real, regular, right, staunch, sterling, true, unadulterated, veritable), real (actual, effective, effectual, factual, live, natural, proper, real, sooth, substantial, tangible, true, truthful, very), pur (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, fine, genuine, immaculate, mere, modest, pure, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), perpendicular (normal, perpendicular, perpendicularly, vertical), limpede (avowedly, bright, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sure), face o cotiturã bruscã, curat (absolute, bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), brut (coarse, crude, earthy, gross, raw, rough, undigested), adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter). (various references)

Russian 

явный (aparent, apparent, declared, downright, evident, explicit, gross, patent, pronounced, unconcealed, undisguised, unmitigated, unqualified, writ large), чистый;абсолютный, отвесно (endways, endwise), без примеси (unsophisticated, without mixture), прозрачный (clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, limpid, lucent, lucid, pellucid, serene, transparent, transpicuous), полнейший (crass). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sasvim (all over, all: at all, clean, completely, dead, entirely, fairly, lock up stock and barrel, plunk, quite, span-new, stark, stinking, throughout, totally, utterly, well, well nigh, whole, wholly, wide), prozračan (diaphanous, translucent, transparent), pravi (genuine, ortho-, plumb, proper, pucka, pukka, real, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true), potpuno (absolutely, all over, broadly, completely, consummately, dead, entirely, full scale, fully, outright, purely, roundly, solely, span-new, stark, thoroughly, throughly, totally, unreservedly, utterly, whole), okomit (steep, vertical), čist (clean, clear, fine, fresh, limpid, mere, neat, net, plain, pure, spotless, tidy, unadulterated, unmixed, unspotted). (various references)

Spanish

puro (bare, chaste, cigar, clean, fine, Frank, fresh, guiltless, neat, plain, pure, raw, self, sinless, transparent, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, undefiled, unmixed, utter). (various references)

Swedish

lodrätt (Plumb, upright), idel (clean, mere, pure, unadulterated), gira (skew, swere, swerve, turn, veer, yaw), gir (swerve, turn, veer, yaw), brant (abrupt, arduous, edge, escarpment, precipice, precipitous, scarp, sharp, steep, steeply, uphill, verge). (various references)

Thai

เต็มที่ (thoroughgoing), ชันมาก, ที่ไม่รวมอย่างอื่น. (various references)

Turkish

sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), sırf (exclusively, mere, merely, only, pure, purely, simply, solely, stark, very), katışıksız (absolute, all, clean, clean-bred, clear, entire, honest, pure, straight, unalloyed, unblended, unmixed), büsbütün (all, altogether, dead, downright, entirely, fair, fairly, quite, staring, stark, wholly), bütün (aggregate, all, all out, all over the, altogether, at all, clear, complement, complete, continuum, entire, entirely, every, everything, gross, holo-, integral, omni-, one and only, out and out, overall, pan-, quite, round, solid, the total, the whole, total, totality, unbroken, undivided, utter, whole, wholly), düpedüz (completely, downright, flatly, outright, utterly), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, Square, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), dikey (apeak, orthogonal, perpendicular, Plumb, upright, vertical), şeffaf (clear, crystalline, filmy, gauzy, hyaline, hyalo-, hyaloid, pellucid, see through, transparent), doğrudan (face to face, first hand, immediate), yolundan sapmak (depart, sheer away), rotadan sapmak, tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), transparan (peekaboo, see through, transparent), dimdik (bolt upright, erect, rigid, uprightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

справжній (active, actual, authentic, factual, genuine, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, original, practical, pukka, real, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), кривизна борту, відхилятися від курсу, відхилення від курсу (yaw), мати вигин, абсолютний (absolute, all round, blank, complete, direct, overall, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, positive, unmitigated), прямовисно, прямовисний (direct, mural, perpendicular, precipitous, prone, upright, vertical), прозорий (bright, clear, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, pellucid, perspicuous, see through, transparent, unclouded), повністю (absolutely, all, all in all, chock, cold, completely, directly, entirely, fully, hollow, in the whole, in total, outright, radically, solid, throughout, totally, whole-hog, wholly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vải trông thấy da quần áo may bằng vải mỏng dính, tuyệt đối thẳng, tuyệt đối dốc đứng, thẳng đứng mỏng dính, thẳng đứng (endlong, plumb, upright, vertical), hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), chỉ là; đúng là; hoàn toàn. (various references)

meraioth, merari, meri, mero. (various references)

scir. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sheer": sheered, sheerer, sheerest, sheering, sheerlegs, sheerly, sheerness, sheernesses, sheers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sheer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esher, Esphyr, gheer, oshere, Schaer, Scheuer, Schneer, sehr, shaer, shea, Shearn, shearp, sheary, sheb, sheder, shee, Sheec, sheed, sheee, sheef, sheek, sheem, sheev, Shehee, Sheher, Sheigra, Shemer, sheq, sher, shere, Sheref, sheren, sheret, Sherk, Sherr, shert, sheu, shewe, shex, shez, shher, shiar, Shieber, shiser, shoer, shofer, Shomer, shour, Shree, shuar, shuer, shure, shyr, sjer, skeer, smeer, smer, sqer, sweer, sxer, Syer, szer, Zehrer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: heres.

-1 letter: here, hers, rees, resh, seer, sere.

-2 letters: ere, ers, her, hes, ree, res, see, ser, she.

-3 letters: eh, er, es, he, re, sh.

+1 letter: cheers, creesh, ethers, haeres, hearse, heders, heresy, heroes, herpes, hewers, hexers, rehems, reshes, reshoe, rushee, sheers, shewer, sphere, theres, threes, wheres.

+2 letters: adheres, aethers, beshrew, cheders, cheeros, chevres, chewers, coheres, creches, echoers, etchers, euchres, flesher, freshed, freshen, fresher, freshes, freshet, hareems, headers, healers, hearers, hearsed, hearses, heaters, heavers, hedgers, heeders, heelers, hefters, heifers, heiress, heister, hellers, helpers, hemmers, henries, herders, heredes, herries, herself, hertzes, heteros, inheres, lechers, meshier, perches, reaches, rechews, rechose, refresh, rehears, reheats, reheels, rehires, rehouse, reshape, reshave, reshine, reshoes, reshone, retches, rushees, schemer, schmeer, screech, sheared, shearer, shedder, sheered, sheerer, sheerly, sheeter, sheller, shelter, shelver, sherbet, shereef, shewers, shrewed, shrieve, skreegh, sphered, spheres, tethers, thermes, threeps, ushered, welsher, wethers, whereas, wherves.