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sheer

sheer - verb

  1. To turn aside sharply from a straight course: chop, cut, skew, slue, swerve, veer. Nautical yaw. See change.
sheer

sheer - adjective

  1. So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film: aerial, aery, airy, diaphanous, ethereal, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, transparent, vaporous, vapory. See thick.
  2. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter. Informal flat-out, positive. Chiefly British blooming. See big. limited.
  3. Free from extraneous elements: absolute, perfect, plain, pure, simple, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See clean.
  4. So sharply inclined as to be almost perpendicular: abrupt, bold, precipitous, steep. See horizontal.