English Dictionary

sheer

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɪə/

形容詞

廃用 広義

(textiles) Very thin or transparent. / (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. / (by extension) Downright; complete; pure. / Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

日本語の意味

（テキスタイルの文脈で）非常に薄く、透けるような / （古い意味で）混じりけのない、純粋な / （拡張された意味で）全くの、完全な、極度の / 程度や量を強調するために用いられる

She wore a sheer blouse that fluttered in the summer breeze.

彼女は夏のそよ風にはためく薄手のブラウスを着ていた。

意味（1）

(textiles) Very thin or transparent.

She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.

If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying’st knave in Christendom.

意味（3）

(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.

That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.

意味（4）

Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

意味（5）

Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.

sheerer （ comparative ）

more sheer （ comparative ）

sheerest （ superlative ）

most sheer （ superlative ）