Meaning of PELLUCID
| Pronunciation: | | pu'loosid
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- [adj] (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"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | clear, crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous, transparent |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Definition: | | Transparent. |
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| | Related Terms: | | Attic, chaste, Ciceronian, 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, lightish, light-pervious, 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 |
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