Loose and Sheer

Loose

Loose adjective - Not tightly fastened, tied, or stretched.

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

Nearby Words: loosen, looseness, loosed, loosely

Sheer

Sheer adjective - Very thin and easy to see through.

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

Nearby Words: sheered, sheering

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • They're also popular in other regions with strong tea cultures, such as Japan, for their sheer convenience compared to loose-leaf tea.
  • Manga / Hatsukoi Zombie Even moreso, second year student Shubuai Misawo, called the "first love killer" for the sheer number of boys who crush on her, and who turns out to have a few screws loose.
  • Manga / Trigun aka: Tri Gun Loose Ruth, a bounty hunter in the first episode: has a gun that takes the cake for sheer impracticality: a two-barreled lever-action rifle, each barrel having its own long magazine.
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