Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) +
lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.]
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
"Pellucid crystal." --Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams."
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster] Pellucidity
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pellucid
adj 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 cristal" [syn: crystalline, crystal
clear, limpid, lucid, transparent]
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "pellucid":
Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear,
clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent,
connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline,
defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy,
elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer,
gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish,
lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent,
luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain,
polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round,
see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, serene, sheer, simple,
straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid,
transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous,
unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored,
unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous, transparent
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