sheer in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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  sheer 
   
2. 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  sheer 
   
3. 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  sheer  transparent  vaporous  vapourous  cobwebby 
   
4. not mixed with extraneous elements
   "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
   plain  sheer  unmingled  unmixed 
   

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

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