Full-blown
Full-blown adjective - Fully grown or developed.
Sheer and full-blown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sheer" instead an adjective phrase "Full-blown".
Sheer
Sheer adjective - Very thin and easy to see through.
Full-blown and sheer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Full-blown" instead an adjective "Sheer".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The title character himself could even be considered a full-blown Kierkegaardian Knight of Faith as his creed is that he will never give up and that he will achieve seemingly impossible ambitions through sheer hard work and belief.
Source: Useful Notes / Existentialism -
Day of the Jackboot: Israel has caved into fear and turned into a full-blown authoritarian state after a major GLA attack and Greece is apparently ruled by a fascist party which granted the Russians passage through the Aegean Sea out of sheer spite for the ECA.
Source: Video Game / Rise of the Reds
Cite this Source
Sheer and Full-blown. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/full-blown/sheer
Full-blown & Sheer. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/full-blown/sheer>.
Sheer or Full-blown. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/full-blown/sheer.
