If people can see through your shirt, it's sheer. This can also mean something steep, like a cliff, or anything extreme, like sheer nerve.
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Verb
cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
Verb
turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
Adjective S.
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
directly; "he fell sheer into the water"
Adverb
straight up or down without a break
v. i.
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
v. i.
Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as,
sheer muslin.
v. i.
Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere;
downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
v. i.
Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
adv.
Clean; quite; at once.
v. t.
To shear.
v. i.
To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course;
to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse
sheers at a bicycle.
n.
The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and
lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
n.
The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and
swinging clear of it.
n.
A turn or change in a course.
n.
Shears See Shear.
Sheer
Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.2.
It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow.4.
A sheer precipice of a thousand feet.
It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent.
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Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore.3.
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Clean; quite; at once.
To shear.
To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve;
The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
Usage Examples
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
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Other Usage ExamplesEven in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
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