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Is sheer a Scrabble word?

Yes, sheer is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of sheer?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.Examples: "Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention."; "“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.”"; "She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection."Synonyms: diaphanous, see-through, thin

2. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.Examples: "If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying’st knave in Christendom."; "Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain, / From when this stream through muddy passages / Hath held his current and defiled himself!"Synonyms: pure, undilutedobsolete

3. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.Examples: "I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing."; "This poem is sheer nonsense."; "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."Synonyms: downright, pure, unmitigated, utter, abject, absolute, arrant, categoricbroadly

adv (English)

1. (archaic) Clean; completely; at once.Examples: "Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer."; "Swift into the dark stream at once he fell, / As the red star at once falls swift and sheer / From sky to sea"; "Descending , and in half cut sheer"archaic

noun (English)

1. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

2. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

verb (English)

1. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.Examples: "I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me."; "Seydlitz correctly identifies the larger shell splashes as coming from the two "large light cruisers" at the rear, and takes aim. Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed."

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "sheer"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "sheer"?

Scrabble
8 points
S1
H4
E1
E1
R1
Words With Friends
7 points
S1
H3
E1
E1
R1

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