sheer
1. turn sharply;
change direction abruptly (Freq. 1)
- The car cut to the left at the intersection
- The motorbike veered to the right
• Syn:
swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue,
slew, cut
• Derivationally related forms:
veering (for: veer), trend (for: trend), curve (for: curve), swerve (for: swerve), swerving (for: swerve)
• Hypernyms:
turn
• Hyponyms:
peel off, yaw
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
2. cause to sheer
- She sheered her car around the obstacle
• Hypernyms:
steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct,
point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. complete and without restriction or qualification;
sometimes used informally as intensifiers (Freq. 6)
- 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
• Syn:
absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down
• Similar to:
complete
• Derivationally related forms:
absoluteness (for: absolute)
2. not mixed with extraneous elements (Freq. 2)
- plain water
- sheer wine
- not an unmixed blessing
• Syn:
plain, unmingled, unmixed
• Similar to:
pure
• Derivationally related forms:
plainness (for: plain)
3. very steep;
having a prominent and almost vertical front (Freq. 1)
- a bluff headland
- where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise
- a sheer descent of rock
• Syn:
bluff, bold
• Similar to:
steep
4. 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
• Syn:
diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer,
see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
• Similar to:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
cobweb (for: cobwebby), transparency (for: transparent), transparentness (for: transparent), gauze (for: gauzy), film (for: filmy)
1. straight up or down without a break
• Syn:
perpendicularly
2. directly
- he fell sheer into the water
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