sheer
Clean; completely; at onceClean; completely; at once.
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Meaning
1 senses(archaic)Clean; completely; at once.
completely
Examples
69 sentencesIt's a sheer waste of time.
Це пусте гаяння часу. — Ahha
This is sheer nonsense.
Це повна нісенітниця. — deniko
deDas ist lauterer Unsinn. — brauchinet
That was sheer nonsense.
We survived by sheer luck.
ruМы выжили по чистой случайности. — Biga
It is a sheer waste of time.
Це тільки даремна трата часу. — deniko
ruЭто пустая трата времени. — marafon
deDas ist reine Zeitverschwendung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; sFrom Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”).
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Forms
more sheer, most sheer| Comparative | more sheer Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most sheer |
regular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- straight up or down without a break:perpendicularly
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.