Sheer
Sheer is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 8 points
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 1
- How common
- Common
Meaning of sheer
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verbTurn sharply; change direction abruptly.
“The car cut to the left at the intersection”
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verbCause to sheer.
“She sheered her car around the obstacle”
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adjectiveComplete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
“absolute freedom”
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adjectiveNot mixed with extraneous elements.
“plain water”
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adjectiveVery steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front.
“a bluff headland”
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adverbStraight up or down without a break.
Similar: perpendicularly
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adverbDirectly.
“he fell sheer into the water”
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of sheer
Words inside sheer
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- here7
- hers7
- rees4
- seer4
- resh7
- sere4
- her6
- see3
- she6
- ere3
- ers3
- hes6
- res3
- ser3
- ree3
Words that rhyme with sheer
- clear
- near
- year
- beer
- cheer
- dear
- deer
- fear
- gear
- mere
- peer
- rear
- lear
- mir
- pier
- queer
- shear
- smear
- spear
- sphere
- steer
- veer
- fleer
- jeer
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