LIMPID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limpid mean? 

• LIMPID (adjective)
  The adjective LIMPID has 3 senses:

1. clear and bright

2. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

3. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

  Familiarity information: LIMPID used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMPID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clear and bright

Synonyms:

limpid; liquid

Context example:

limpid blue eyes

Similar:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

Synonyms:

crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; pellucid; transparent

Context example:

transparent crystal

Similar:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

Derivation:

limpidity (passing light without diffusion or distortion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Synonyms:

crystal clear; limpid; lucid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous

Context example:

a perspicuous argument

Similar:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Derivation:

limpidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)

 Context examples 

She leaned toward him, entreaty in her eyes, and as he looked at her delicate face and into her pure, limpid eyes, as of old he was struck with his own unworthiness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)