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transparent
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| transparent quartz
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective transparent has 4 senses
- transparent(s = adj.all) crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid - 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 transparence2, noun transparence1, noun transparency1, noun transparentness1
- transparent(s = adj.all) cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" Derived forms noun transparency1, noun transparentness1
- transparent(s = adj.all) guileless - free of deceit; Array
- transparent(s = adj.all) Array - easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie" Derived form noun transparency2
CIDE DICTIONARY
transparent, a. [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.].
- Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to
opaque . Milton. [1913 Webster] - Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid; diaphanous. See Translucent.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
transparent, adj.
1 allowing light to pass through so that bodies can be distinctly seen (cf. TRANSLUCENT).
2 a (of a disguise, pretext, etc.) easily seen through. b (of a motive, quality, etc.) easily discerned; evident; obvious.
3 (of a person etc.) easily understood; frank; open.
4 Physics transmitting heat or other electromagnetic rays without distortion.
1 allowing light to pass through so that bodies can be distinctly seen (cf. TRANSLUCENT).
2 a (of a disguise, pretext, etc.) easily seen through. b (of a motive, quality, etc.) easily discerned; evident; obvious.
3 (of a person etc.) easily understood; frank; open.
4 Physics transmitting heat or other electromagnetic rays without distortion.
Derivative
transparently adv. transparentness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. med.L transparens f. L transparere shine through (as TRANS-, parere appear)
THESAURUS
transparent
apparent, articulate, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear as glass, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, distinguishable, downright, evident, explicit, express, filmy, flimsy, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gauzy, genuine, glassy, gossamer, gossamery, guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, manifest, naive, nonopaque, obvious, on the level, open, openhearted, outspoken, patent, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-spoken, recognizable, relucent, revealing, round, see-through, serene, sheer, simple, sincere, straight, straight-out, straightforward, thin, translucent, translucid, transpicuous, unambiguous, unchecked, unclouded, unconfused, unconstrained, understandable, undisguised, undissembling, unequivocal, unguarded, univocal, unmistakable, unobscured, unreserved, unrestrained, well-definedROGET THESAURUS
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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.Intelligibility
N intelligibility, clearness, explicitness, lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity, legibility, plain speaking, precision, phonanta synetoisy, a word to the wise, intelligible, clear, clear as day, clear as noonday, lucid, perspicuous, transpicuous, luminous, transparent, easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized, plain, distinct, explicit, positive, definite, graphic, expressive, illustrative, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable, unconfused, legible, recognizable, obvious, in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, he that runs may read.
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