n. 25B6; adjective
the sheer audacity of the plan : UTTER, complete, absolute, total, pure, downright, out-and-out, arrant, thorough, thoroughgoing, patent, veritable, unmitigated, plain; Austral./NZ informal fair.
a sheer drop : PRECIPITOUS, steep, vertical, perpendicular, abrupt, bluff, sharp.
a sheer dress : DIAPHANOUS, gauzy, filmy, floaty, gossamer, thin, translucent, transparent, see-through, insubstantial.
gradual, thick.