Usually means: Completely transparent; very thin fabric.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sheer: Merriam-Webster
  3. sheer, sheer, sheer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sheer, sheer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sheer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sheer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sheer, sheer: Wordnik
  8. sheer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sheer, sheer: Wiktionary
  10. sheer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sheer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sheer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sheer: Dictionary.com
  14. sheer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sheer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sheer (ship), Sheer (textile), Sheer, The Sheer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sheer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sheer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sheer: Rhymezone
  20. sheer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sheer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SHEER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. sheer: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sheer: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. sheer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. sheer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. sheer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sheer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Textile (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sheered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
adjective:  (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
adjective:  (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
adjective:  Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
adjective:  Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
adverb:  (archaic) Clean; completely; at once.
noun:  A sheer curtain or fabric.
noun:  (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
noun:  (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
verb:  (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of shear. [(intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.]

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