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adj
Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
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Synonyms: clear, limpid, lucid, perspicuous, clear as crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, pellucid, see-through, serene, transparent, transpicuous, vitreous
Antonyms: adiaphanous, nontransparent, opacous, opacular, opaque, thick
adj
Easily understood; clear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: crystal clear, lucid, perspicuous, translucent, apprehensible, clear, limpid, comprehensible, explainable, explicable, explicatable, fathomable, graspable, illuminable, intelligible, pellucid, straightforward, tangible, understandable
Antonyms: abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, Greek, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, impenetrable, insensible, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, mysterious, nonunderstandable, obscure, retruse, tenebrose, thick, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable, ununderstandable
adj
Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Easily recognized or seen through; apparent, obvious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut, conspicuous, crystal clear, cut and dried, decided, elucidate, evident, eyely, intuitive, manifest, notable, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, splendent, straightforward, undissembled
Antonyms: subtle, tricky, nice, delicate, knotty
noun
Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, obsolete, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable- Robert Burton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: limpid, lucid, luculent, crystal clear, perspicuous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, transparent
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin per Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Italic *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus Latin pellūciduslbor. English pellucid The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)). The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”) * Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))
Across languages
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