(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(v. t.) To shear.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(4) Obviously, the sheer number of lasers being used both clinically and experimentally indicates a great potential for further advancement and refinement in technique and surgical outcomes.
(5) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(8) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(9) Back in the 1970s, a severe economic crisis revealed the sheer unsustainability of government policies.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(12) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(13) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
(14) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(15) Brown, from Sheerness in Kent, who was to earn £15,000 a year from the role, has apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted between the ages of 14 and 16.
(16) I hope that people feel inspired enough, maybe in the sheer face of loss, to just do what they should be doing in life.
(17) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(18) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(19) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(20) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
Unmitigated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time policymakers resorted to such draconian measures was an unmitigated disaster: following the SEC's ban on naked short-selling of financial shares in late 2008, the S&P 500 index lost 21.5% of its value during the period of the veto.
(2) We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a transition to a healthier, more sustainable economy.
(3) Myth 6: biofuels are always destructive to the environment Making some of our motor fuel from food has been an almost unmitigated disaster.
(4) They’re not going to be announcing, like they did at Carrier, that they’re closing up and they’re moving to Mexico.” So an unmitigated triumph for Trump?
(5) The Republican chairman of the House armed services committee, Californian Buck McKeon, castigated it as an unmitigated disaster.
(6) When he strokes the blank sheets the narrator notes his happiness: "Not for years, not since 1914 , had I witnessed an expression of such unmitigated happiness on the face of a German .
(7) The transfer window is currently six days old and so far it's been nothing short of an unmitigated, egregious waste of time.
(8) The chronic production of lipid peroxide-modified Lp(a) together with unmitigated cellular clearance by scavenger receptors may contribute to the accumulation of lipoprotein-derived lipid in macrophage-derived foam cells of the atherosclerotic reaction.
(9) The venture was a "flat, rank and unmitigated failure", wailed the man who had more or less invented popular journalism by creating the Daily Mail.
(10) "I don't see how anyone could invest in this company any longer," ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall told Associated Press, describing it as "an unmitigated train wreck".
(11) Ukip remains the great unknown Nigel Farage's Ukip conference was an unmitigated disaster.
(12) The display of cabinet solidity may not be all it seems: many know full well that their leader is an almost unmitigated electoral liability.
(13) On the first day back after the Christmas break, all that David Cameron could remember of December’s European Union summit was that it had been an unmitigated triumph.
(14) All that may happen is that prices of established dwellings go up less quickly than they would otherwise – and I think that would be an unmitigated good thing.” So now a line of economists, think-tanks, community groups and even Tony Abbott’s chair of the audit commission, Tony Shepherd, are on the record as calling for change to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
(15) Phil Dorrell, director of retail consultants Retail Remedy From day one, Fresh & Easy was an unmitigated disaster for Tesco.
(16) Decision theory's role in medicine will lie between the extremes of naive optimism ("a Rosetta stone") and unmitigated pessimism ("a computerized Ouija board").
(17) The Case Against 8 – a documentary about the fight to overturn California's voter referendum that prohibited same-sex marriage for five years – leaves viewers with the unmitigated impression that Proposition 8 was overturned by a small group of very rich white people, the Great White Hope of Marriage Equality.
(18) 'Real fight starts now': Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit tweet prompts bruising response Read more Perhaps Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster – but even if it is, will the public blame the government and turn to the politicians who sought to block it in the first place?
(19) For the only western democracy without a human rights act or a developed constitutional underpinning of human rights, putting up our hand for a seat at the table looks like a piece of unmitigated presumption.
(20) This is the moment, in a life story of unmitigated misfortune, when you might expect that things would begin to improve.