Usually means: Completely, purely, without any mixture.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word sheerly:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheerly: Merriam-Webster
  2. sheerly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheerly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sheerly: Vocabulary.com
  5. sheerly: Wordnik
  6. sheerly: Wiktionary
  7. sheerly: Dictionary.com
  8. Sheerly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. sheerly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Sheerly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sheerly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sheerly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Sheerly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheerly: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sheerly)

▸ adverb:  Absolutely; purely; quite.
▸ adverb:  At a very steep angle; precipitously.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) At once.

Similar:
purely, altogether, outright, absolutely, just, merely, simply, purly, purely and simply, categorically, more...

Opposite:
fully, completely, totally, wholly

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Similar:
purely, altogether, outright, absolutely, just, merely, simply, purly, purely and simply, categorically, more...

Opposite:
fully, completely, totally, wholly



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