Limpid \Lim"pid\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr.
la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.]
1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a
limpid stream.
[1913 Webster]
Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid.
--Woodward.
2. Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of
speech and writing; as, limpid prose.
[PJC]
3. Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene.
[PJC]
Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal;
translucent; bright.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
limpid
adj 1: clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning";
"eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue
eyes" [syn: liquid]
2: 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,
lucid, pellucid, transparent]
3: (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:
lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "limpid":
Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear,
clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, 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-pervious, loud and clear, lucid, luminous,
natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain,
polished, pure, refined, restrained, revealing, round, see-through,
sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent,
transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous,
unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored,
unmistakable, well-defined
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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