Horrible and Sheer

Horrible

Horrible adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.

Sheer and horrible are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sheer" instead an adjective "Horrible".

Nearby Words: horrid, horror, horrify, horribly

Sheer

Sheer adjective - Having no exceptions or restrictions.
Usage example: survivors of the earthquake told of experiencing sheer terror

Horrible and sheer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Horrible" instead an adjective "Sheer".

Nearby Words: sheered, sheering

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Super Robot Wars Z Stylistic Suck: Beck the Great RX-3 is a horrible machine, but the sheer camp of using its one and only attack makes up for it.
  • More deliberate examples can be seen in the sheer number of fanfics out there where Aya cures Youji's amnesia and 'saves' him from the horrible fate of marriage to a girl through the Power of Love.
    Source: Fix Fic
  • But just as they start to relax and be amused it starts breathing horrible atom-decoupling plasma projectiles which sends everyone running away in sheer terror again.
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