sheer

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adj

1. transparently thin, diaphanous, translucent, filmy, gossamer, gossamery; naked, clear, crystal, glassy, hyaline.

2. simple, plain, pure, unadulterated, unmixed, unalloyed, unmingled; homogeneous, uniform; elemental, elementary.

3. utter, downright, absolute, unqualified, complete, out-and-out, total, veritable, unconditional, rank.

4. steep, precipitous, bluff, abrupt, sharp, bold, stiff, arduous; perpendicular, vertical, upright, straight up and down; acclivitous, ascending, uphill; declivitous, descending, downhill.

adv

5. clear, completely, quite, totally, entirely.

6. steeply, abruptly, vertically, perpendicularly, precipitously.

n

1. gauze, chiffon, voile, netting; cloud, mist, veil, film.

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v

1. go off course, change the heading, deviate, yaw, stray, drift; swerve, sag, skew; turn, turn aside, cant, twist, shift, bear off, slue, veer; lurch, list, heel, tilt.

n

2. deviation, divergence, swerve, swerving, turning aside, turning; drift, deflection, skew, twist.

3.(of a ship's hull) curve, swoop, angle, pitch, warp.