- [only before noun]
used to emphasize the size, degree or amount of something (用來強調事物的大小、程度或數量) - [only before noun]
complete and not mixed with anything else synonym utter完全的;純粹的;十足的 The concert was sheer delight. 這場音樂會是一次十足的享受。 sheer luck/chance/coincidence/joy/bliss/determination 純粹的運氣/機會/巧合/快樂/幸福/決心 I only agreed out of sheer desperation. 我一時情急才同意的。 sheer terror/panic/exhaustion/hell 純粹的恐懼/恐慌/疲憊/地獄
More Like This Adjectives that only come before a nounAdjectives that only come before a noun very steep 陡峭的 (of cloth, etc. )織物等 thin, light and almost transparent 又薄又輕幾乎透明的 sheer nylon 透明尼龍
Word Originadjective Middle English (in the sense ‘exempt, cleared’): probably an alteration of dialect shire ‘pure, clear’, from the Germanic base of the verb shine. In the mid 16th cent. the word was used to describe clear, pure water, and also in sense (4).