Crossword-Solution: SHEER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheer | v. i. | Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. |
| Sheer | v. i. | Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin. |
| Sheer | v. i. | Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. |
| Sheer | v. i. | Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. |
| Sheer | adv. | Clean; quite; at once. |
| Sheer | v. t. | To shear. |
| Sheer | 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. |
| Sheer | n. | The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. |
| Sheer | n. | The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it. |
| Sheer | n. | A turn or change in a course. |
| Sheer | n. | Shears See Shear. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHEER | anagram | ESHER, ESREH, HEERS, HERES, HERSE, RHEES, SEREH, SHERE, SHREE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SHEER (5)
Now to th’ ascent of that steep savage Hill _Satan_ had journied on, pensive and slow; But further way found none, so thick entwin’d, As one continu’d brake, the undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplext All path of Man or Beast that past that way: One Gate there onely was, and that look’d East On th’ other side: which when th’ arch-fellon saw Due entrance he disdaind, and in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap’d all bound Of Hill or highest Wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet.
Gabriel meditated, and so deeply that he brought small furrows into his forehead by sheer force of reverie.
You have at your fingertips the ability to talk in "real-time" with someone in Japan, send a 2,000-word short story to a group of people who will critique it for the sheer pleasure of doing so, see if a Macintosh sitting in a lab in Canada is turned on, and find out if someone happens to be sitting in front of their computer (logged on) in Australia, all inside of thirty minutes.
The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
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Quotes with SHEER (3)
But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people? You want these kinds of powers? No, you don't, and here's why, and here's why it's sheer vanity to want them in any other entity. Look what sort of violence would rain down. Poor Job, sure, poor Job with his hives and his financi…
Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creatur…
If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 266 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).