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Completely clear (in various senses).
Without ambiguity or doubt; completely understood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: simile
Examples
- Reread through the manual until the instructions are crystal clear in your head.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clear as crystal
Antonyms: none provided
Completely clear (in various senses).
Visually clear, a sharp image, of high acuity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: simile
Examples
- The picture on this TV is crystal clear – you can see every grain of sand!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clear as crystal
Antonyms: none provided
Completely clear (in various senses).
Very translucent or transparent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: simile
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clear as crystal
Antonyms: none provided
Completely clear (in various senses).
Having no clouds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: simile
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clear as crystal
Antonyms: none provided
Completely clear (in various senses).
Aurally clear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: simile
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clear as crystal
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable- Robert Burton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- writes in a limpid style
- lucid directions
- a luculent oration
- pellucid prose
- a crystal clear explanation
- a perspicuous argument
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent
Antonyms: none provided
From Middle English cristal cleer. Emphatic form of clear in visual and metaphorical “understandable” senses. Compare clear as a bell (“very clear (of sound)”).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
淺顯易懂 /浅显易懂
(qiǎnxiǎnyìdǒng)
— completely clear and understood
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Chinese Mandarin:
顯而易見 /显而易见
(xiǎn'éryìjiàn)
— completely clear and understood
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Czech:
nad slunce jasný
— completely clear and understood
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Finnish:
kristallinkirkas
— completely clear and understood
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German:
sonnenklar
— completely clear and understood
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German:
glasklar
— completely clear and understood
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German:
kristallklar
— completely clear and understood
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German:
sternenklar
— completely clear and understood
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Hungarian:
kristálytiszta
— completely clear and understood
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Italian:
chiarissimo
— completely clear and understood
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Italian:
chiaro e limpido
— completely clear and understood
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Italian:
chiaro come il sole
— completely clear and understood
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Italian:
cristallino
— completely clear and understood
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Javanese:
cetha wela-wela
— completely clear and understood
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Norwegian Bokmål:
krystallklar
— completely clear and understood
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
krystallklar
— completely clear and understood
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
krystallklår
— completely clear and understood
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Russian:
криста́льно я́сный
(kristálʹno jásnyj)
— completely clear and understood
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Spanish:
con claridad meridiana
— completely clear and understood
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Spanish:
meridiano
— completely clear and understood
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Spanish:
claro como el agua
— completely clear and understood
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Spanish:
más claro que el agua
— completely clear and understood
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Swedish:
glasklar
— completely clear and understood
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Chinese Mandarin:
清澈
(qīngchè)
— visually clear
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Finnish:
kristallinkirkas
— visually clear
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French:
clair comme de l'eau de roche
— visually clear
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German:
glasklar
— visually clear
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German:
kristallklar
— visually clear
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Hungarian:
kristálytiszta
— visually clear
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Italian:
chiarissimo
— visually clear
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Italian:
cristallino
— visually clear
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Japanese:
澄み切った
(sumikitta)
— visually clear
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Javanese:
cetha wela-wela
— visually clear
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Norwegian Bokmål:
krystallklar
— visually clear
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
krystallklar
— visually clear
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
krystallklår
— visually clear
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Russian:
криста́льно чи́стый
(kristálʹno čístyj)
— visually clear
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Swedish:
kristallklar
— visually clear
