Sheer

Adjective

 * 1)  Very thin or transparent.
 * Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
 * 1) Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
 * I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
 * This poem is sheer nonsense.
 * 1) Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.
 * It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.

Synonyms

 * diaphanous, see-through, thin
 * downright, mere, pure, undiluted, unmitigated
 * perpendicular, steep, vertical

Adverb

 * 1)  clean; quite; at once.

Noun

 * 1)  The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
 * 2)  An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

Verb

 * 1)  To swerve from a course.
 * 2)  To shear.

Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, about ship, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, airy, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, angle, angle off, aplomb, arduous, arrant, at right angles, avert, back and fill, bare, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bent, bias, blasted, blessed, bluff, bold, born, box off, branch off, branching off, break, breakneck, bring about, bring round, broad-based, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the bearing, change the heading, chiffon, circuitousness, clarified, clean, clear, clear as crystal, come about, complete, comprehensive, confounded, congenital, consummate, corner, crook, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, curve, declination, deep-dyed, deflect, depart from, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diaphane, diaphanous, digress, digression, dip, discursion, distilled, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, double a point, downright, drift, drifting, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, errantry, excursion, excursus, exhaustive, exorbitation, fetch about, filmy, flimsy, gauzy, go about, gossamer, gossamery, gross, gybe, hairpin, headlong, heave round, heel, indirection, infernal, intensive, irretrievably, irrevocably, jibe, jibe all standing, light-pervious, limpid, lucid, lurch, mere, miss stays, naked, neat, nonopaque, oblique, obliquity, omnibus, omnipresent, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out-and-out, outright, peekaboo, pellucid, pererration, perfect, perfectly, perpendicular, perpendicularly, pervasive, pivot, plain, plumb, plunging, ply, precipitate, precipitous, pure, purified, put about, put back, quite, radical, rambling, rank, rapid, rectified, regular, revealing, right, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, round a point, see-through, sharp, sheerly, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sideling, simple, skew, slant, slew, slue, square, stark, steep, stickle, straight, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, straying, sway, sweep, sweeping, swerve, swerving, swing round, swing the stern, swinging, tack, thin, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, throw about, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trend, turn, turn aside, turn back, turning, twist, ubiquitous, unadorned, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, unclouded, uncombined, uncompounded, unconditional, uncorrupted, undiluted, unenhanced, unfortified, universal, unleavened, unmingled, unmitigated, unmixed, unqualified, unrelievedly, unreserved, unrestricted, unsophisticated, untinged, up and down, up-and-down, utter, variation, vary, veer, veritable, vertical, volte-face, wandering, warp, wear, wear ship, wheel, whip, whirl, wholesale, wind, yaw, zigzag

Etymology 1
From skírr:, cognate with  skær:,  schier:,  schier:,  𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃:.

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 透明的
 * Dutch: flinterdun
 * Finnish: ohut, harsomainen
 * German:


 * Hungarian: áttetsző, vékony, könnyű
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
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 * Russian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 纯粹的
 * Dutch:, , klinkklaar
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: pur
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: teljes, merő, puszta


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 * Polish:
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 * Romanian: sadea
 * Russian:


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 * Mandarin: 峻峭的
 * Dutch: ,
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