sheer

sheer is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as intransitive verb, adverb, transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
2. intransitive verb. Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
3. intransitive verb. Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
4. intransitive verb. Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
5. adverb. Clean; quite; at once.
6. transitive verb. To shear.
7. intransitive verb. 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.
8. noun. The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
9. noun. The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
10. noun. A turn or change in a course.
11. noun. Shears See Shear.
12. verb. cause to sheer

    "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

13. verb. turn sharply; change direction abruptly

    "The car cut to the left at the intersection"

    "The motorbike veered to the right"

    Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer

14. adjective. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

    "absolute freedom"

    "an absolute dimwit"

    Synonyms: absolute, downright, rank

15. adjective. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front

    "a bluff headland"

    "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"

    Synonyms: bluff, bold

16. adjective. not mixed with extraneous elements

    "plain water"

    "sheer wine"

    Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed

17. adjective. so thin as to transmit light

    "a hat with a diaphanous veil"

    "filmy wings of a moth"

    Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous

18. adverb. directly

    "he fell sheer into the water"

19. adverb. straight up or down without a break

    Synonyms: perpendicularly

Synonyms

curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer, absolute, downright, rank, bluff, bold, plain, unmingled, unmixed, cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, perpendicularly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sheer:

heres, herse, sereh, shree

Common word forms

sheers, sheered, sheerer, sheerly, sheerest, sheering, sheerness

Words from these letters

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