[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics:sheer silk.Antonyms: opaque", "unmixed with anything else:We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock.Synonyms: unadulterated , pure , simple , mere", "unqualified ; utter :sheer nonsense.Synonyms: downright , absolute", "extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical:a sheer descent of rock.Synonyms: precipitous , abrupt", "British Obsolete.bright; shining."]}, {"Bold_text": "adverb", "List Items": ["clear ; completely ; clean :ran sheer into the thick of battle.Synonyms: entirely , totally", "perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to sheer.", "Shipbuilding.to give sheer to (a hull)."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve .", "Shipbuilding.the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of a vessel at the main deck or bulwarks.", "Nautical.the position in which a ship at anchor is placed to keep it clear of the anchor."]}]