LUCID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lucid mean? 

• LUCID (adjective)
  The adjective LUCID has 4 senses:

1. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

2. having a clear mind

3. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

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

  Familiarity information: LUCID used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCID (adjective)

Sense 1

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:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a clear mind

Context example:

a lucid moment in his madness

Similar:

sane (mentally healthy; free from mental disorder)

Derivation:

lucidity (a lucid state of mind; not confused)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

Synonyms:

coherent; logical; lucid

Context example:

she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident

Similar:

rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)

Sense 4

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)

 Context examples 

On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His mind had begun to wander again, and to be perplexed by hallucinations, while his lucid intervals grew rarer and shorter.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

That lucid and admirable statement seems to be the last word in the matter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed to recover himself, for a lucid gleam came into his eyes, and he relaxed his hold with a short laugh that was more like a growl.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In his attempts to be particularly lucid, Mr. Barkis was so extremely mysterious, that I might have stood looking in his face for an hour, and most assuredly should have got as much information out of it as out of the face of a clock that had stopped, but for Peggotty's calling me away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He read a long debate with the most amiable readiness and then explained it in his most lucid manner, while Meg tried to look deeply interested, to ask intelligent questions, and keep her thoughts from wandering from the state of the nation to the state of her bonnet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her, as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret: besides, she had lucid intervals of days—sometimes weeks—which she filled up with abuse of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)