sheer (v.)
- angle
- arrant
- avert
- bare
- beat
- bend
- bias
- bluff
- bold
- born
- break
- cant
- cast
- clean
- clear
- complete
- consummate
- corner
- crook
- curve
- deflect
- detour
- deviate
- digress
- dip
- divagate
- divaricate
- diverge
- divert
- double
- drift
- gross
- gybe
- heel
- jibe
- lurch
- perfect
- pivot
- plain
- plumb
- ply
- precipitate
- pure
- quite
- rank
- right
- sharp
- shift
- skew
- slant
- slew
- slue
- square
- steep
- stickle
- sway
- sweep
- swerve
- tack
- thin
- total
- trend
- turn
- twist
- utter
- vary
- veer
- warp
- wear
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- wholesale
- wind
- yaw
- zigzag
sheer (adv.)
sheer (adj.)
- abrupt
- absolute
- airy
- all-embracing
- all-encompassing
- all-out
- angle
- arduous
- arrant
- avert
- bare
- beat
- bend
- bent
- bias
- blasted
- blessed
- bluff
- bold
- born
- breakneck
- cant
- cast
- clean
- clear
- complete
- comprehensive
- confounded
- congenital
- consummate
- corner
- crystalline
- deviate
- diaphanous
- double
- downright
- drift
- drifting
- egregious
- exhaustive
- filmy
- flimsy
- gauzy
- gossamer
- gross
- headlong
- heel
- infernal
- intensive
- limpid
- lucid
- mere
- naked
- neat
- oblique
- omnibus
- omnipresent
- orthogonal
- out-and-out
- outright
- pellucid
- perfect
- perpendicular
- pervasive
- plain
- plumb
- ply
- precipitate
- precipitous
- pure
- purified
- radical
- rambling
- rank
- rapid
- rectified
- regular
- revealing
- right
- right-angled
- see-through
- sharp
- shift
- shifting
- simple
- skew
- slant
- square
- stark
- steep
- straight
- straying
- sweeping
- swerving
- swinging
- tack
- thin
- thorough
- thoroughgoing
- total
- translucent
- transparent
- turn
- turning
- ubiquitous
- unadorned
- unadulterated
- unalloyed
- unblended
- unclouded
- uncombined
- uncompounded
- unconditional
- uncorrupted
- undiluted
- universal
- unleavened
- unmingled
- unmitigated
- unmixed
- unqualified
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- unsophisticated
- utter
- vary
- veritable
- vertical
- wandering
- wear
- wheel
- whip
- wholesale
- wind
- zigzag
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
