Definition of Sheer

Verb

• cause to sheer
  "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
  
• turn sharply
  change direction abruptly
  "The car cut to the left at the intersection"
  "The motorbike veered to the right"
  swerve curve trend veer slue slew cut

Adjective

• so thin as to transmit light
  "a hat with a diaphanous veil"
  "filmy wings of a moth"
  "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"
  "gossamer cobwebs"
  "sheer silk stockings"
  "transparent chiffon"
  "vaporous silks"
  diaphanous filmy gauzy - gauze like gossamer - see through transparent vaporous - vapourous cobwebby
• very steep
  having a prominent and almost vertical front
  "a bluff headland"
  "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"
  "a sheer descent of rock"
  bluff bold
• not mixed with extraneous elements
  "plain water"
  "sheer wine"
  "not an unmixed blessing"
  plain unmingled unmixed
• complete and without restriction or qualification
  sometimes used informally as intensifiers
  "absolute freedom"
  "an absolute dimwit"
  "a downright lie"
  "out-and-out mayhem"
  "an out-and-out lie"
  "a rank outsider"
  "many right-down vices"
  "got the job through sheer persistence"
  "sheer stupidity"
  absolute downright - out and out rank - right down

Adverb

• directly
  "he fell sheer into the water"
  
• straight up or down without a break
  perpendicularly

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