sheer als werkwoord: - 1
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als bijvoeglijk naamwoord: - 1
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als bijwoord: - 1
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sheer
werkwoord
1 sheer
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.
synoniemen: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.
Nederlands: zwerven, regelen, afzwenken, evolueren, uitzwenken, zwaaien, zwenken
2 sheer
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 sheer
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers:
— Got the job through sheer persistence.
— Sheer stupidity.
synoniemen: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down.
Roget 32:
small,
little;
diminutive
etc.
(small in size)
193;
minute;
fine;
inconsiderable,
paltry
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
faint
etc.
(weak)
160;
slender,
light,
slight,
scanty,
scant,
limited;
meager
etc.
(insufficient)
640;
sparing;
few
etc.
103;
low,
so-so,
middling,
tolerable,
no great shakes;
below par,
under par,
below the mark;
at a low ebb;
halfway;
moderate,
modest;
tender,
subtle.
inappreciable,
evanescent,
infinitesimal,
homeopathic,
very small;
atomic,
corpuscular,
microscopic,
molecular,
subatomic.
mere,
simple,
sheer,
stark,
bare;
near run.
dull,
petty,
shallow,
stolid,
ungifted,
unintelligent.
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Roget 52:
complete,
entire;
whole
etc.
50;
perfect
etc.
650;
full,
good,
absolute,
thorough,
plenary;
solid,
undivided;
with all its parts;
all-sided.
exhaustive,
radical,
sweeping,
thorough-going;
dead.
regular,
consummate,
unmitigated,
sheer,
unqualified,
unconditional,
free;
abundant
etc.
(sufficient)
639.
brimming;
brimful,
topful,
topfull;
chock full,
choke full;
as full as an egg is of meat,
as full as a vetch;
saturated,
crammed;
replete
etc.
(redundant)
641;
fraught,
laden;
full-laden,
full-fraught,
full-charged;
heavy laden.
completing
etc.
v.;
supplemental,
supplementary;
ascititious†.
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2 sheer
Not mixed with extraneous elements:
— Sheer wine.
synoniemen: plain, unmingled, unmixed.
Roget 42:
simple,
uniform,
of a piece [Fr.],
homogeneous,
single,
pure,
sheer,
neat.
unmixed,
unmingled†,
unblended,
uncombined,
uncompounded;
elementary,
undecomposed;
unadulterated,
unsophisticated,
unalloyed,
untinged†,
unfortified,
pur et simple [Fr.];
incomplex†.
free from,
exempt from;
exclusive.
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3 sheer
Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front:
— A sheer descent of rock.
synoniemen: bluff, bold.
4 sheer
So thin as to transmit light:
— Sheer silk stockings.
synoniemen: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous.
Pools: przeźroczysty, prześwitujący, przezroczysty
bijwoord
1 sheer
2 sheer
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: aberrancy, aberration, about ship, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, airy, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, angle, angle off, aplomb, arduous, arrant, at right angles, avert, back and fill, bare, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bent, bias, blasted, blessed, bluff, bold, born, box off, branch off, branching off, break, breakneck, bring about, bring round, broad-based, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the bearing, change the heading, chiffon, circuitousness, clarified, clean, clear, clear as crystal, come about, complete, comprehensive, confounded, congenital, consummate, corner, crook, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, curve, declination, deep-dyed, deflect, depart from, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diaphane, diaphanous, digress, digression, dip, discursion, distilled, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, double a point, downright, drift, drifting, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, errantry, excursion, excursus, exhaustive, exorbitation, fetch about, filmy, flimsy, gauzy, go about, gossamer, gossamery, gross, gybe, hairpin, headlong, heave round, heel, indirection, infernal, intensive, irretrievably, irrevocably, jibe, jibe all standing, light-pervious, limpid, lucid, lurch, mere, miss stays, naked, neat, nonopaque, oblique, obliquity, omnibus, omnipresent, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out-and-out, outright, peekaboo, pellucid, pererration, perfect, perfectly, perpendicular, perpendicularly, pervasive, pivot, plain, plumb, plunging, ply, precipitate, precipitous, pure, purified, put about, put back, quite, radical, rambling, rank, rapid, rectified, regular, revealing, right, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, round a point, see-through, sharp, sheerly, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sideling, simple, skew, slant, slew, slue, square, stark, steep, stickle, straight, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, straying, sway, sweep, sweeping, swerve, swerving, swing round, swing the stern, swinging, tack, thin, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, throw about, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trend, turn, turn aside, turn back, turning, twist, ubiquitous, unadorned, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, unclouded, uncombined, uncompounded, unconditional, uncorrupted, undiluted, unenhanced, unfortified, universal, unleavened, unmingled, unmitigated, unmixed, unqualified, unrelievedly, unreserved, unrestricted, unsophisticated, untinged, up and down, up-and-down, utter, variation, vary, veer, veritable, vertical, volte-face, wandering, warp, wear, wear ship, wheel, whip, whirl, wholesale, wind, yaw, zigzag ... meer laten zien.
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