sheer

Meanings

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly
• cause to sheer
  • "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
  • "got the job through sheer persistence"
  • "sheer stupidity"
• not mixed with extraneous elements
  • "sheer wine"
• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
  • "a sheer descent of rock"
• so thin as to transmit light
  • "sheer silk stockings"
• straight up or down without a break
• directly
  • "he fell sheer into the water"

Synonyms

absolute, bluff, bold, cobwebby, curve, cut, diaphanous, downright, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, out-and-out, perpendicularly, plain, rank, right-down, see-through, slew, slue, swerve, transparent, trend, unmingled, unmixed, vaporous, vapourous, veer