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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pellucid has 2 senses
- pellucid(s = adj.all) crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent - 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" Derived forms noun pellucidity2, noun pellucidness1
- pellucid(s = adj.all) crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous - (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" Derived form noun pellucidity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pellucid, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) + lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.].
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pellucid, adj.
1 (of water, light, etc.) transparent, clear.
2 (of style, speech, etc.) not confused; clear.
3 mentally clear.
1 (of water, light, etc.) transparent, clear.
2 (of style, speech, etc.) not confused; clear.
3 mentally clear.
Derivative
pellucidity n. pellucidly adv.
Etymology
L pellucidus f. perlucere (as PER-, lucere shine)
THESAURUS
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-definedROGET THESAURUS
pellucid
Transparency
N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.
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