pellucid
1. transmitting light;
able to be seen through with clarity
- the cold crystalline water of melted snow
- crystal clear skies
- could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
- lucid air
- a pellucid brook
- transparent crystal
• Syn:
crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, transparent
• Similar to:
clear
• Derivationally related forms:
transparency (for: transparent), transparentness (for: transparent), transparence (for: transparent), pellucidity, pellucidness, limpidity (for: limpid)
2. (of language) transparently clear;
easily understandable
- writes in a limpid style
- lucid directions
- "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton
- pellucid prose
- a crystal clear explanation
- a perspicuous argument
• Syn:
limpid, lucid, luculent, crystal clear, perspicuous
• Similar to:
clear
• Derivationally related forms:
perspicuousness (for: perspicuous), perspicuity (for: perspicuous), pellucidity, lucidity (for: lucid), limpidity (for: limpid)
• Topics:
language, linguistic communication
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