Sheer

Adjective:
1. Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
2. Not mixed with extraneous elements
3. Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
4. So thin as to transmit light

Usage:
1. Got the job through sheer persistence.
2. Sheer stupidity
3. Sheer wine
4. A sheer descent of rock
5. Sheer silk stockings

Verb:
1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
2. Cause to sheer

Usage:
1. She sheered her car around the obstacle

Adverb:
1. Straight up or down without a break
2. Directly

Usage:
He fell sheer into the water

Synonyms:
1. Absolute
2. Bluff
3. Bold
4. Cobwebby
5. Curve
6. Cut
7. Diaphanous
8. Downright
9. Filmy
10. Gauze-Like
11. Gauzy
12. Gossamer
13. Orthogonally
14. Out-and-out
15. Perpendicularly
16. Plain
17. Rank
18. Right-down
19. See-Through
20. Slew
21. Slue
22. Swerve
23. Transparent
24. Trend
25. Unmingled
26. Unmixed
27. Vaporous
28. Vapory
29. Veer