sheerly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
At a very steep angle; precipitously.
Example Sentences
- "It had amused the blind man to accept the invitation to give the annual Stalworthy lecture, as it frequently did amuse him to do unexpected things—sheerly to experience—but more than once before he was through the unentertaining business he cursed the moment of good-natured assent."
- "On a sheerly technical plane, the projections used for the backgrounds were very effective, particularly in the third act, where a sunset faded most convincingly."
- "The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along, the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins."
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Inflected Forms
more sheerly (comparative)
most sheerly (superlative)