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Exact Match:

sheer

directly; "he fell sheer into the water"

straight up or down without a break

cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

Synonyms:

• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• about ship,
• abrupt,
• absolute,
• absolutely,
• airy,
• all-embracing,
• all-encompassing,
• all-out,
• all-pervading,
• angle,
• angle off,
• aplomb,
• arduous,
• arrant,
• at right angles,
• avert,
• back and fill,
• bare,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear to starboard,
• beat,
• beat about,
• bend,
• bent,
• bias,
• blasted,
• blessed,
• bluff,
• bold,
• born,
• box off,
• branch off,
• branching off,
• break,
• breakneck,
• bring about,
• bring round,
• broad-based,
• cant,
• cant round,
• cast,
• cast about,
• change course,
• change the bearing,
• change the heading,
• chiffon,
• circuitousness,
• clarified,
• clean,
• clear,
• clear as crystal,
• come about,
• complete,
• comprehensive,
• confounded,
• congenital,
• consummate,
• corner,
• crook,
• crystal,
• crystal-clear,
• crystalline,
• curve,
• declination,
• deep-dyed,
• deflect,
• depart from,
• departure,
• detour,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviate,
• deviation,
• deviousness,
• diaphane,
• diaphanous,
• digress,
• digression,
• dip,
• discursion,
• distilled,
• divagate,
• divagation,
• divaricate,
• divarication,
• diverge,
• divergence,
• diversion,
• divert,
• dogleg,
• double,
• double a point,
• downright,
• drift,
• drifting,
• dyed-in-the-wool,
• egregious,
• errantry,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• exhaustive,
• exorbitation,
• fetch about,
• filmy,
• flimsy,
• gauzy,
• go about,
• gossamer,
• gossamery,
• gross,
• gybe,
• hairpin,
• headlong,
• heave round,
• heel,
• indirection,
• infernal,
• intensive,
• irretrievably,
• irrevocably,
• jibe,
• jibe all standing,
• light-pervious,
• limpid,
• lucid,
• lurch,
• mere,
• miss stays,
• naked,
• neat,
• nonopaque,
• oblique,
• obliquity,
• omnibus,
• omnipresent,
• orthodiagonal,
• orthogonal,
• out-and-out,
• outright,
• peekaboo,
• pellucid,
• pererration,
• perfect,
• perfectly,
• perpendicular,
• perpendicularly,
• pervasive,
• pivot,
• plain,
• plumb,
• plunging,
• ply,
• precipitate,
• precipitous,
• pure,
• purified,
• put about,
• put back,
• quite,
• radical,
• rambling,
• rank,
• rapid,
• rectified,
• regular,
• revealing,
• right,
• right-angle,
• right-angled,
• right-angular,
• round a point,
• see-through,
• sharp,
• sheerly,
• shift,
• shifting,
• shifting course,
• shifting path,
• sideling,
• simple,
• skew,
• slant,
• slew,
• slue,
• square,
• stark,
• steep,
• stickle,
• straight,
• straight-up,
• straight-up-and-down,
• straying,
• sway,
• sweep,
• sweeping,
• swerve,
• swerving,
• swing round,
• swing the stern,
• swinging,
• tack,
• thin,
• thorough,
• thoroughgoing,
• through-and-through,
• throw about,
• total,
• translucent,
• transparent,
• transpicuous,
• trend,
• turn,
• turn aside,
• turn back,
• turning,
• twist,
• ubiquitous,
• unadorned,
• unadulterated,
• unalloyed,
• unblended,
• unclouded,
• uncombined,
• uncompounded,
• unconditional,
• uncorrupted,
• undiluted,
• unenhanced,
• unfortified,
• universal,
• unleavened,
• unmingled,
• unmitigated,
• unmixed,
• unqualified,
• unrelievedly,
• unreserved,
• unrestricted,
• unsophisticated,
• untinged,
• up and down,
• up-and-down,
• utter,
• variation,
• vary,
• veer,
• veritable,
• vertical,
• volte-face,
• wandering,
• warp,
• wear,
• wear ship,
• wheel,
• whip,
• whirl,
• wholesale,
• wind,
• yaw,
• zigzag