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ALL meanings of sheerest

sheer
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  • adjective sheerest transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings. 1
  • adjective sheerest unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. 1
  • adjective sheerest unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense. 1
  • adjective sheerest extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock. 1
  • adjective sheerest British Obsolete. bright; shining. 1
  • adverb sheerest clear; completely; quite: ran sheer into the thick of battle. 1
  • adverb sheerest perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply. 1
  • noun sheerest a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile. 1
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