Sheer vs. Unmitigated

Sheeradjective

(textiles) Very thin or transparent.

‘Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.’;

Unmitigatedadjective

Not mitigated.

Sheeradjective

(obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.

Unmitigatedadjective

(intensifier) Total, complete, utter.

Sheeradjective

(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.

‘I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.’; ‘This poem is sheer nonsense.’; ‘Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries....’;

Unmitigatedadjective

not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier;

‘unmitigated suffering’; ‘an unmitigated horror’; ‘an unmitigated lie’;

Sheeradjective

Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

‘The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.’;

Sheeradjective

Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

‘It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.’;

Sheeradverb

(archaic) Clean; quite; at once.

Sheernoun

A sheer curtain or fabric.

Sheernoun

(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

Sheernoun

(nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

Sheerverb

To swerve from a course.

‘A horse sheers at a bicycle.’;

Sheerverb

(obsolete) To shear.

Sheeradjective

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

‘Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.’;

Sheeradjective

Very thin or transparent; - applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

Sheeradjective

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

‘It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow.’;

Sheeradjective

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

‘A sheer precipice of a thousand feet.’; ‘It was at leastNine roods of sheer ascent.’;

Sheeradverb

Clean; quite; at once.

Sheerverb

To shear.

Sheerverb

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.

Sheernoun

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

Sheernoun

A turn or change in a course.

‘Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore.’;

Sheernoun

Shears See Shear.

Sheerverb

turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

‘The car cut to the left at the intersection’; ‘The motorbike veered to the right’;

Sheerverb

cause to sheer;

‘She sheered her car around the obstacle’;

Sheeradjective

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

‘absolute freedom’; ‘an absolute dimwit’; ‘a downright lie’; ‘out-and-out mayhem’; ‘an out-and-out lie’; ‘a rank outsider’; ‘many right-down vices’; ‘got the job through sheer persistence’; ‘sheer stupidity’;

Sheeradjective

not mixed with extraneous elements;

‘plain water’; ‘sheer wine’; ‘not an unmixed blessing’;

Sheeradjective

very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;

‘a bluff headland’; ‘where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise’; ‘a sheer descent of rock’;

Sheeradjective

so thin as to transmit light;

‘a hat with a diaphanous veil’; ‘filmy wings of a moth’; ‘gauzy clouds of dandelion down’; ‘gossamer cobwebs’; ‘sheer silk stockings’; ‘transparent chiffon’; ‘vaporous silks’;

Sheeradverb

straight up or down without a break

Sheeradverb

directly;

‘he fell sheer into the water’;

Sheeradjective

nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis)

‘she giggled with sheer delight’; ‘it's been sheer hard work’;

Sheeradjective

(especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so

‘the sheer ice walls’;

Sheeradjective

(of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous

‘sheer white silk chiffon’;

Sheeradverb

perpendicularly

‘the ridge fell sheer, in steep crags’;

Sheeradverb

completely; right

‘she went sheer forward when the door was open’;

Sheernoun

a very fine or diaphanous fabric or article

‘she ditched her glossy sheers while pregnant’; ‘I put up the new curtains and sheers’;

Sheernoun

a sudden deviation from a course, especially by a boat.

Sheernoun

the upward slope of a ship's lines towards the bow and stern.

Sheerverb

(typically of a boat) swerve or change course quickly

‘the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast’;

Sheerverb

avoid or move away from an unpleasant topic

‘her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on’;