Word "SHEER" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
not mixed with extraneous elements
Synonyms:
plain, unmingled, unmixed
Examples:
sheer wine

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
Synonyms:
bluff, bold
Examples:
a sheer descent of rock

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
Synonyms:
curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer

Crossword Clues for SHEER

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Clue Source Date
Like chiffon fabric USA Today 01 Sep 2025
Unadulterated gossamer The Times Sunday Cryptic 31 Aug 2025
Absolutely transparent (5) Mirror Cryptic 17 Aug 2025
Precipitous (5) Mirror Quick 17 Aug 2025
Absolute Newsday 17 Aug 2025
Diaphanous New York Times 10 Aug 2025
Downright Puzzler Backwords 31 Jul 2025
Very steep Newsday 26 Jul 2025
Complete quiet always for the poet
Very fine lady, the Queen (5)
Vertical The Telegraph Quick 30 Jun 2025
Complete vertical
Unbroken swerve(5)
Utter, downright (5) Puzzler 26 May 2025
Very hard to climb, lady again turned back (5)
Precipitous; pure The Telegraph Quick 01 May 2025
Lady... umm... it's diaphanous (5)
The female again climbs. It's precipitous (5)
She, the monarch, is absolute (5)
Very fine cut on the ear The Times Cryptic 18 Apr 2025
The lady hesitates ___ before such a drop? (5)
See-through - straight up, it is! (5)
Like a thin dress Universal 14 Apr 2025
See about hotel before right becomes transparent Mirror Cryptic 12 Apr 2025
Precipitous Mirror Quick 12 Apr 2025
Like some stockings USA Today 07 Apr 2025
See-through LA Times Daily 02 Apr 2025
Here's unusually steep Mirror Cryptic 30 Mar 2025
Precipitous Mirror Quick 30 Mar 2025
Arrant, absolute
Complete request for quiet? Look to bar piano (5)
Abrupt woman may hesitate Mirror Cryptic 16 Mar 2025
Precipitous Mirror Quick 16 Mar 2025
Downright Puzzler Backwords 03 Mar 2025
See-through, thin (5)
Out-and-out Newsday 09 Feb 2025
Downright description of very thin material (5)
Nothing other than; perpendicular
Precipitous Mirror Quick 21 Jan 2025
Utter something abrupt? Mirror Cryptic 21 Jan 2025
Woman finds queen transparent
Absolute Universal 20 Jan 2025
Complete with female, returned (5)
___ Heart Attack, Queen album The Telegraph Plusword 09 Jan 2025
This describes curtains that are diaphanous (5)
Don't keep straight on - it's very steep (5)
Downright upright! (5)
Ship's deviation is clear (5)
Absolutely diaphanous?
Sharp turn The Times Cryptic 14 Nov 2024
Steep, almost vertical (5)
To deviate out of here's possible (5)
Mum always very thin The Times Quick Cryptic 29 Oct 2024
Downright hard to interrupt prophetic figure (5)
Seethrough The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 26 Oct 2024
Very steep and you turn away from (5)
Precipitous Mirror Quick 25 Oct 2024
Woman finds hesitation transparent Mirror Cryptic 25 Oct 2024
Quite thin fabric (5)
That woman finds queen transparent (5)
Verging on perpendicular The Times Concise 07 Oct 2024
Diaphanous (5) The Guardian Quick 29 Sep 2024
Diaphanous (5) The Guardian Quick 28 Sep 2024
Of fabric, transparent (5)
Fine and hot, claimed by forecaster (5)
Being unqualified she shows some hesitation
He's performing an about turn that's quite transparent (5)
She hesitates on seeing such a drop (5)
Precipitous Mirror Quick 08 Sep 2024
Woman finds hesitation transparent Mirror Cryptic 08 Sep 2024
It's almost vertical - make a deviation (5)
Absolute hush, always (5)
Very steep Mirror Tea Time 22 Aug 2024
Unadulterated and, according to reports, cut (5)
Nearly transparent
Here's awfully steep! Mirror Cryptic 22 Jun 2024
Precipitous Mirror Quick 22 Jun 2024
She has hesitation in describing fine stockings
He's absolute chaos! (5)
Nearly vertical (cliff face) (5)
Almost vertical, like a cliff
Absolute, unmitigated (5)
It's fine with sun out here (5)
Like some tinted moisturizers USA Today 03 Jun 2024
Fine cut for commentators The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2024
Diaphanous The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2024
Very steep Mirror Tea Time 26 May 2024
Woman finds the queen transparent
Precipitous Mirror Quick 25 May 2024
Very thin, but complete Mirror Cryptic 25 May 2024
Like pure silk stockings (5)
Hard to climb, but that's fine (5)
Precipitous Mirror Quick 11 May 2024
Remove fleece, say - it's steep Mirror Cryptic 11 May 2024
"It's very steep", the lady returned (5)
Thin and transparent New York Times 30 Apr 2024
Utter endless heresy, wildly (5)
Here's a system that's vertical (5)
Haggard work experience recruiter faces fine
Unalloyed The Guardian Quick 18 Mar 2024
It's very much inclined to deviate (5)
That woman may hesitate but is transparent Mirror Cryptic 09 Mar 2024
The woman finds queen transparent
Precipitous Mirror Quick 09 Mar 2024
Esher development is quite transparent Mirror Cryptic 03 Mar 2024
To change the heading would be simple
Precipitous Mirror Quick 03 Mar 2024
Downright see-through!
Thin fleece picked up
Exceedingly steep (5)
Hosiery package word
Absolute Ashes hero all outsiders ignored The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Feb 2024
Absolute Ashes hero all outsiders ignored (5)
Thin and straight up and down (5)
Perpendicular cut, say (5)
Delicate husband taken in by prophet The Sun Two Speed 27 Jan 2024
Diaphanous The Sun Two Speed 27 Jan 2024
Very steep Mirror Tea Time 19 Jan 2024
Very thin Thomas Joseph 19 Jan 2024
The woman finds former queen transparent
Utter; diaphanous (5)
Pure, unmingled (5)
Utter, downright (5) Puzzler 31 Dec 2023
Very steep The Times Concise 29 Dec 2023
See-through Commuter 18 Dec 2023
Transparent (of textiles) (5)
It's very steep so change course
A girl had little hesitation to tackle a steep cliff (5)
Here's awkward description of a vertical cliff? (5)
Very thin Thomas Joseph 17 Oct 2023
Extremely steep LA Times Daily 30 Aug 2023
Very fine cut, reportedly The Times Cryptic 29 Aug 2023
Vertical deviation The Telegraph Toughie 28 Jul 2023
Transparent USA Today 16 May 2023
Transparent, as fabrics Newsday 02 May 2023
Very steep Universal 27 Apr 2023
Haggard woman facing Queen is thin The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Mar 2023
See through, in textiles
See-through LA Times Daily 21 Mar 2023
Utter The Telegraph Quick 26 Feb 2023
See-through Thomas Joseph 22 Feb 2023
Complete quiet always for poet The Times Cryptic 28 Oct 2022
Unmitigated Newsday 16 Sep 2022
See-through USA Today 10 Sep 2022
Very thin Thomas Joseph 26 Aug 2022
Like see-through fabric USA Today 04 Jul 2022
Downright; vertical The Telegraph Quick 23 May 2022
Like gossamer and chiffon Wall Street Journal 21 May 2022
Diaphanous The Telegraph Quick 19 May 2022
Diaphanous Newsday 29 Apr 2022
Complete and utter Universal 23 Apr 2022
Transparent USA Today 23 Apr 2022
Like chiffon Thomas Joseph 26 Mar 2022
See-through USA Today 16 Jan 2022
Thin — steep — complete The Guardian Quick 11 Jan 2022
Like some cliffs and negligees Wall Street Journal 20 Dec 2021
Utter, stark The Telegraph Quick 07 Nov 2021
Downright; vertical The Telegraph Quick 04 Oct 2021
Not hiding much LA Times Daily 03 Sep 2021
Not hiding much The Washington Post 03 Sep 2021
Like many a cliff or coincidence New York Times 24 Aug 2021
Total going straight up
Like voile and chiffon New York Times 18 Jul 2021
Fine; steep The Guardian Speedy 11 Jul 2021
Like a debutante presented to Her Majesty in very fine fabric? Quite
See-through USA Today 26 Jun 2021
Transparent, as hosiery Family Time 15 Mar 2021
Like transparent fabric USA Today 30 Oct 2020
Utter The Washington Post 28 Oct 2020
Utter LA Times Daily 28 Oct 2020
Fine cut, by the sound of it?
Utter New York Times 18 Oct 2020
Diaphanous or very steep Irish Times Simplex 13 Oct 2020
Not qualified to show clip? Only hear it
Like some revealing attire Wall Street Journal 26 Aug 2020
Downright eccentricity
Fine cut for commentators The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2020
Diaphanous The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2020
Very steep Universal 27 May 2020
Very tough to climb Newsday 07 May 2020
Fine rank
Steep The Telegraph Quick 15 Apr 2020
Utter Universal 27 Feb 2020
Rumour of cut being steep The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Feb 2020
Precipitous The Telegraph Quick 26 Dec 2019
Absolute Wall Street Journal 05 Dec 2019
Transparent fabric? Absolutely
Like see-through lingerie USA Today 04 Nov 2019
Very hard to climb Newsday 31 Oct 2019
See-through Premier Sunday 27 Oct 2019
Very thin cut, say
Like chiffon Thomas Joseph 07 Oct 2019
Like Yosemite's El Capitan The Washington Post 20 Sep 2019
Like Yosemite's El Capitan LA Times Daily 20 Sep 2019
See-through New York Times 18 Sep 2019
Very fine total The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Aug 2019
Very steep Newsday 25 Aug 2019
(Of fabric) very thin The Times Concise 11 Jul 2019
Unmitigated The Washington Post Sunday 16 Jun 2019
Transparent Eugene Sheffer 24 May 2019
Utter hurrah with son for clubs
Complete deviation
See-through Jonesin 26 Mar 2019
Almost perpendicular or very thin Irish Times Simplex 11 Mar 2019
Like see-through lingerie
See-through
Like Yosemite's El Capitan
Downright delicate
Transparent Premier Sunday 23 Dec 2018
Fine cut for commentator The Sun Two Speed 22 Nov 2018
Very thin Thomas Joseph 16 Oct 2018
Simple to deviate
Unqualified Newsday 07 Sep 2018
Transparent The Washington Post 21 Jun 2018
Transparent LA Times Daily 21 Jun 2018
See through, in textiles
Mere husband taken in by prophet
Nothing other than The Telegraph Quick 13 Mar 2018
Female meeting the queen becomes complete
Like nylon stockings New York Times 06 Feb 2018
Like nylon stockings
Transparent
Pure woman? I need to think about that!
Absolute, or see-through like some stockings
Downright The Telegraph Quick 24 Aug 2017
Unmitigated cut by the sound of it
Like many a negligee Wall Street Journal 05 Jun 2017
Very steep, as a cliff USA Today 01 May 2017
See-through, as hosiery USA Today 15 Apr 2017
Unmitigated Newsday 02 Apr 2017
See-through LA Times Daily 16 Feb 2017
Transparent Newsday 15 Feb 2017
Perpendicular The Telegraph Quick 07 Feb 2017
Like chiffon Premier Sunday 29 Jan 2017
Utter The Chronicle of Higher Education 20 Jan 2017
See-through, as hosiery
Utter
See-through
Very steep, as a cliff
Very steep The Telegraph Quick 15 Nov 2016
Transparent, as hosiery Universal 12 Jun 2016
Absolute ruler's after that woman The Telegraph Toughie 09 Jun 2016
Unadulterated The Washington Post 22 May 2016
Bluff from fortune-teller taking in husband The Telegraph Cryptic 17 May 2016
Outright source of hope in prophet The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Apr 2016
Like organza Eugene Sheffer 30 Mar 2016
Absolute LA Times Daily 18 Feb 2016
Absolute prophet capturing hearts
Absolute
Utter
Transparent, as hosiery
Like chiffon Wall Street Journal 11 Nov 2015
Fine cut for commentators The Times Cryptic 05 Aug 2015
Like chiffon USA Today 13 Jul 2015
Sounds like order to take the coat off his beastly back - is it that transparent? Irish Times Crosaire 11 Jul 2015
Transparent New York Times 01 May 2015
Complete and utter Universal 28 Apr 2015
Female monarch unqualified
Out-and-out Newsday 25 Jan 2015
Like chiffon
Like chiffon
Transparent
Unmitigated
Out-and-out
Complete and utter
Utter
See-through
Very thin cut on the tongue
Like some cliffs and stockings
Very, very thin
Transparently thin
Hard to climb
Complete
Hosiery variety
Utter
See-through, as nylons
Absolute quiet always required
Like many negligees
Diaphanous
Absolute
Transparently thin
See-through
Transparently thin
Unmitigated
Gossamery
Utter
Like some curtains
See-through
Unqualified
Transparent, as hosiery
Transparent, as stockings
Out-and-out
Transparent, as stockings
Transparent, as stockings
That girl meeting the Queen is thin
Fine cut for the commentator
Film of queen following woman
Absolute
Transparent
Translucent, as hosiery
Like pantyhose
'74 Queen album: "___ Heart Attack"
Absolute
Utter
Transparent, as fabrics
Like some lingerie
Precipitous
Like some stockings
Like organza or chiffon
See-through
Downright
Not opaque
Utter
Like some stockings
Hosiery variety
Gauzy
Like many a negligee
Like pantyhose
Almost vertical
Precipitous
Tough to climb
Precipitous
Transparent, as stockings
Like transparent fabric
Nearly transparent, as hosiery
Nearly 90 degrees
Unadulterated
Like organza or chiffon
Hosiery variety
Like chiffon
See-through
Almost perpendicular, as a cliff face
Like organza or chiffon, e.g.
Very thin
Like a negligee, usually
Out-and-out
Like some curtains
Like some hosiery
See-through
Like chiffon
Like some lingerie
Absolute
Unqualified
Diaphanous
Like a slinky negligee
Like chiffon
Transparent
Out-and-out
Tough to climb
Like chiffon
See-through
Like nylons
Translucent
See-through
Like some hose
Like organza
Gauzy
Diaphanous
Like some hose
Transparent
Like some lingerie
Like some sleepwear
Like some peignoirs
Like many a negligee
Gossamer
Fine, and transparent
Downright
Utter
Gossamery
Transparently thin
Out-and-out
Diaphanous
Like organza or chiffon
Nearly vertical
Rank rising sharply?
Almost perpendicular
Sexy, in a way^SHEE
See-through, as hosiery
Translucent
Diaphanous
Downright
Quite fine
Filmy
Transparent, as hosiery
Very, very thin
Transparent
Like nylons
Extreme
Diaphanous
Hose description
Like chiffon
Pure
Downright
Filmy
Like some hose
Complete
Precipitous
Unmixed
Downright
Unmixed.
Good nylons are.
Very transparent.
Like some pantyhose
66 gauge, 12 denier, in nylons.
Utter.
Steep.
See 115 Across.
Gossamer.
Transparent.
Describing nylons.
Altogether.
Dropping suddenly down.
Diaphanous, as nylons.
Like some drops
Diaphanous.
Adjective for nylons.
Very thin.
Like some nylons.
Deviate from a course
Like some hose.
Precipitous.
Unqualified.
Downright.
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