sheerly
1
4.5
- adverb
- /ˈʃɪrli/
:
puramente
- So you can kind of see that you can apply these sheerly or you can apply them with much greater intensity.
And I said, well, you know, be honest, What could you have gotten into UCLA on sheerly your SAT scores and your GPA?
- And I said, well, you know, be honest, What could you have gotten into UCLA on sheerly your SAT scores and your GPA?
- So from a sheerly latentious standpoint, they were not a word sponsored.
Examples
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- It is appalling in terms of how much women's work and also women's roles and women's films actually are contributing to the box office, just sheerly on a commercial level.
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He'd been a father for twenty-seven years, but as he thought about it that night, fatherhood had been more sheerly biological and egocentric than thoughtful and sociable.
Fiction book (1999) -
I always forget how sheerly this applies.
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Production of school books predominated; books based sheerly on imagination were non-existent.
Academic text (1995) -
And I said, well, you know, be honest, What could you have gotten into UCLA on sheerly your SAT scores and your GPA?
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What the resilience and abundance of life-forms and fossils suggest to Darwin, paradoxically, is how sheerly provisional life is.
Academic text (1999) -
This was due to the fact, as the International Theological Commission recognized in its 1977 Declaration on Human Development and Christian Salvation, that "theology... cannot deduce concrete political norms sheerly from theological principles."
Academic text (1992) -
Even without any increased surveillance, wiretapping, baggage searching, passenger harassment, and every other minor little chip and papercut into people's privacy and rights, the people responsible for the 9/11 attacks would, today, have been caught sheerly by virtue of increased vigilance and more active cooperation of law enforcement agencies, which are known to be the primary failures that allowed it to happen.
Blog text (25) -
She wanted to follow her dreams for sheerly personal reasons, without any external pressure.
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The decision was sheerly based on his desire to find happiness, free from outside influence.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Completely and without any doubt
∞
1.0
Totally, in every way
∞
1.0
To be complete with nothing left out
∞
1.0
Completely, with nothing left out
∞
2.2
Completely without leaving anything out
241
4.0
Only, not involving anyone or anything else
236
3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
91
3.7
To say something is complete or very strong to make a point
84
3.4
Completely in every way
35
4.2
Completely, with nothing left to pay
8
2.3
Totally and without any doubt
3
7.1
Completely and without holding back
In a complete and direct way, without any doubt
Antonyms
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sheerly comes from the adjective sheer, which once meant 'pure' or 'clear', as in the idea of 'sheer luck'. So sheerly can mean 'completely' or 'only', with nothing else involved.