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Sheer
ʃɪə
Sheer definitions
adjective
sheer
sheerer
sheerest
- nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis)
"she giggled with sheer delight"
utter complete absolute total pure perfect downright out-and-out thorough thoroughgoing through and through consummate patent surpassing veritable unqualified unmitigated unalloyed unadulterated unmixed - (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so
"the sheer ice walls"
- (of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous
"sheer white silk chiffon"
diaphanous gauzy filmy floaty very thin translucent transparent see-through gossamer gossamer-like chiffony insubstantial ultra-fine fine
adverb
sheer
- perpendicularly
"the ridge fell sheer, in steep crags"
- completely; right
"she went sheer forward when the door was open"
noun
sheer
sheers
- a very fine or diaphanous fabric or article
"I put up the new curtains and sheers"