Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with sheer in American Collocation
sheer
adjective
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/ʃɪr/
size
breadth
complexity
enormity
magnitude
quantity
scale
size
volume
weight
One of our selling points is the sheer volume of readers we can offer advertisers.
good qualities
beauty
brilliance
determination
exuberance
genius
luck
The organisation, hospitality and sheer brilliance of the event was simply superb.
pleasure
bliss
delight
enjoyment
exhilaration
joy
pleasure
Her performance was sheer comic delight.
bad qualities
brutality
incompetence
madness
nonsense
stupidity
He may have got away with it, apart from some sheer stupidity on his behalf.
bad feelings
boredom
desperation
exhaustion
terror
Many men were suffering tremendously from diseases, hunger and sheer exhaustion.