sheer

Very thin or transparent.

Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.

“She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.

If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying’st knave in Christendom.

Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain, / From when this stream through muddy passages / Hath held his current and defiled himself!

Downright; complete; pure.

I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.

This poem is sheer nonsense.

Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.

Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.

Clean; completely; at once.

Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer.

Swift into the dark stream at once he fell, / As the red star at once falls swift and sheer / From sky to sea

A sheer curtain or fabric.

Use sheers to maximize natural light.

Lightweight, tightly woven silkies, sheers, lingerie